Court Opinion

ID: 9702822
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:25:27.913615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:52.866617
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DOYLE, Judge,
concurring and dissenting.
While I agree with the majority’s holding that the Trial Court Nominating Commission was not intended by the General Assembly to be included within the term “agency” as it is defined in Section 3 of the Sunshine Act,11 cannot agree that *130the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is not included because he is an individual rather than a “body.” Quite frankly, he is the very embodiment of that term as it applies to the executive branch of our state government, and, in my opinion, the Act is clear that the legislature of this Commonwealth meant to include the Governor of this Commonwealth within the term “the executive branch of the government.”
Therefore, I concur only in the result reached by the majority.

. Act of July 3, 1986, P.L. 388, 65 P.S. §§ 271-286.