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Protection from Personal Document's Disclosure Does Not End With Death in Pennsylvania

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008

Filed under: Medical Records, Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records, Death Penalty, Death Row. Location: Pennsylvania.

Temple University law student Hayes Hunt petitioned the court to review the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' (DOC) 1996 order denying his request for medical and mental health records of executed prisoner Leon Moser. The denial was affirmed and his other requests were dismissed for lack of sufficient specificity.

Hunt requested ...

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