North Hills News Record v. Town of McCandless

How courts have described this case

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• holding, based on a long line of decisions originating in the Commonwealth Court, that documents are “public records” under the Act where they bear a close relationship to an actual agency decision
• holding, based on a long line of decisions originating in the Commonwealth Court, that documents are \public records\ under the Act where they bear a close relationship to an actual agency decision
• explaining that, where the provisions of a statute are clear, courts “are forbidden from diverging from the plain meaning under the mere pretext of pursuing the spirit of the enactment.”
• explaining that, where the provisions of a statute are clear, courts “are forbidden from diverging from the plain meaning under the mere pretext of pursuing the spirit of the enactment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).