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The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records is a governmental agency in Pennsylvania that administers the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law. [ 1 ] Decisions made by the Office of Open Records regarding appeals, called "final determinations," are available online.
In some jurisdictions, a petition for review is a formal request for an appellate tribunal to review the decision of a lower court or administrative body. [1] If a jurisdiction utilizes petitions for review, then parties seeking appellate review of their case may submit a formal petition for review to an appropriate court. [ 2 ]
Right to petition; Freedom of association ... As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; ... 302 (C.C.D. Pa. 1794)
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...
Signature of Abraham op den Graeff (at the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery) Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff, also Op den Graff, Opdengraef as well as Op den Gräff [1] (c. 1649 – c. 1731) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America, and an original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader, member of the ...
The Pennsylvania legislature passed Act 135 in 2008. The act established property conservatorship as a mechanism to address blight. [1] The act was designed to provide community members with standing to petition for the right to rehabilitate and take ownership of abandoned properties.
An Amendment, created to explain and to close loopholes in the 1780 Act, was passed in the Pennsylvania legislature on March 29, 1788. The Amendment prohibited Pennsylvanians from transporting pregnant enslaved women out-of-state so that their children would be born enslaved, and also prohibited Pennsylvanians from separating enslaved husbands from wives and enslaved children from parents.
The use of the FD-302 has been criticized as a form of institutionalized perjury due to FBI guidelines that prohibit recordings of interviews. Prominent defense lawyers and former FBI agents have stated that they believe that the method of interviewing by the FBI is designed to expose interviewees to potential perjury or false statement criminal charges when the interviewee is deposed in a ...