Times-Shamrock Communications and nine other media outlets have been granted permission to join a court challenge of the Public Utility Commission's refusal to release documents related to a settlement reached with PPL Utilities over its response to a 2011 snowstorm. Read More…

The Pennsylvania Senate is getting a third crack at its attempt to shield from public view legal bills related to the representation of Democratic caucus employees.
The Commonwealth Court granted the Senate's request for reargument in Levy v. Senate of Pennsylvania, but limited the reargument to the issue of whether client identities are exempt from the Right-to-Know Law's disclosure requirements under the grand-jury secrecy exception. Read More…

For a second time, Commonwealth Court has ruled that the state Senate cannot withhold the names of employees represented by private lawyers it hires and must give basic descriptions of the services those attorneys provide. Read More…