The Commonwealth Court clarified the shifting burdens when a nonparty news organization asks to open a final, unappealed sealing order covering wrongful-death settlements involving a minor.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed a trial court’s denial of summary judgment and restored full governmental immunity to the Borough of Prospect Park, holding that an 11-foot-wide paved park pathway that dead-ends past a pavilion is not a “street” under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act’s Streets Exception—and that the Sidewalk Exception therefore also fails because there is no qualifying street to adjoin.