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ALDERWOODS (PENNSYLVANIA) v. DUQUESNE LIGHT

No. 12 WAP 2013.

106 A.3d 27 (2014)

ALDERWOODS (PENNSYLVANIA), INC., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Service Corporation International, t/a Burton L. Hirsch Funeral Home, Appellee, v. DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 15, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erin Megan Beckner, Esq. , Gary P. Hunt, Esq. , Richard B. Tucker III, Esq. , Pittsburgh, Bradley S. Tupi, Esq. , Tucker Arensberg, P.C., for Duquesne Light Company.

Robert C. Heim, Esq. , Philadelphia, Dechert LLP, for Energy Association of Pennsylvania.

Bohdan R. Pankiw, Esq. , Harrisburg, Kenneth Riley Stark II, Esq. , PA Public Utility Commission, Patricia Timmerman Wiedt, Esq. , Robert Frank Young, Esq. , for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Elisa Talora Wiygul, Esq. , Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, for Energy Association of Pennsylvania.

Alan J. Charkey, Esq. , White and Williams, L.L.P., Peter T. Parashes, Esq. , Philadelphia, for Alderwoods (Pennsylvania), Inc.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, STEVENS, JJ.

OPINION

The main and controlling issue accepted for review, as framed by the appellant, is "[w]hether the Superior Court erred in imposing upon electric utilities a burdensome and unprecedented duty to enter customers' premises and inspect customers' electrical facilities before restoring power after an outage?"...

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