A recent Commonwealth Court decision has allowed a set of plaintiffs to obtain records under the state’s Right-to-Know Law that they were denied in federal court because the discovery deadline had passed.

The underlying federal lawsuit dates back several years and pertains to the claim of three pro-life protestors that the city of Allentown and a local women’s center conspired to impinge upon the pro-life advocates’ right to free speech. The federal claim has been dismissed as moot because the women’s center — one of a handful of free-standing abortion clinics in the state — moved to Bethlehem in response to protests.

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