Seven Penn State trustees are entitled to attorney fees and costs after a nearly two-year-long battle over access to the materials that formed the basis of the Freeh report, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

Reversing a Centre County trial judge’s ruling, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in In re Application by Nonprofit Corporation Trustees to Compel Inspection of Corporate Information that the alumni-elected trustees are due counsel fees and costs under an indemnification provision of the university’s bylaws.