The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that both the Commonwealth Court and state trial courts have the discretion to make their own findings of fact when deciding cases involving public access to records, without deference to prior determinations by the state Office of Open Records.
The justices ruled 4-2 to uphold a Commonwealth Court ruling in which it determined that it has a de novo standard of review with the broadest scope in records cases.
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