Pettis v. Gay

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an agency must raise all [of] its challenges before the fact[]finder closes the record”
• in “RTKL proceedings, [fact-finding] will occur at the appeals officer stage, and a reviewing court will defer to the findings of the appeals officer.”
• “[i]n the ordinary course of RTKL proceedings [receipt of evidence] will occur at the appeals officer stage and a reviewing court will defer to the findings of the appeals officer.”
• “A 11 remand does not permit a litigant a ‘proverbial second bite at the apple.’ Emery Worldwide v. Unemployment [Compensation Board] of Review, [540 A.2d 988, 990 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1988)].”
• although agency failure to raise an exemption in its denial of a request does not waive its right to argue that ground, grounds for nondisclosure not raised before the fact-finder in the appeal from its denial are waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).