PG Publishing Co. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Courts have an inherent power to control then-records and proceedings, and may deny access when appropriate.”
• “Courts have an inherent power to control their records and proceedings, and may deny access when appropriate.”
• “The documents upon which the district justice bases a decision to issue a search warrant are also judicial in character, for the decision to issue a search warrant is a judicial decision.”
• “In order for the appellate review of a trial court’s discretionary ruling to be meaningful, the appellate court must understand the factual findings upon which a trial court’s conclusions of law are based.
• search warrants and affidavits are public judicial records “once the warrants have been executed”
• decided under common law right of access to court records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).