The Tribune-Review doesn't want to reveal 24 years worth of financial details to the daughter of its late publisher Richard Mellon Scaife, according to a motion filed Friday in Allegheny County Orphan's Court.

Attorneys for Jennie Scaife, 52, of Palm Beach, Fla., have subpoenaed the balance sheets, budgets, tax returns, financial memos, board meeting minutes, organizational charts, circulation data and any documents referring to an emptied trust fund that may be in the possession of Trib Total Media Inc. and affiliated companies.

Attorney Robert L. Byer, representing Trib Total Media and the affiliates, wrote that the subpoena seeks "an astonishing breadth of documents and information" that are "entirely irrelevant" to the involved case, and that production would cause "unreasonable annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, burden or expense" to the media company.

Ms. Scaife and her brother, David Scaife, 49, of Shadyside, are suing three trustees who allowed their father to drain around $450 million from a trust fund over 20 years, largely to subsidize the newspaper. The daughter and son would have received any balance from the fund upon their father's death, but there was none.

The trustees are Tribune-Review board chairman H. Yale Gutnick, James M. Walton and PNC Bank.

Judge Kathleen Durkin would rule on the motion to quash the subpoena. On Thursday, she handed Mr. Gutnick's side a discovery victory by ordering the depositions of Jennie Scaife, her mother Frances Scaife and two Florida confidants. Jennie Scaife's attorneys had sought to stop or limit those depositions.

First Published: December 19, 2015, 5:00 a.m.