DUQUESNE LIGHT CO. v. DEPT. OF TRANSP.

Original jurisdiction No. 527 C.D. 1972.

6 Pa.Commw. 364 (1972)

Duquesne Light Company v. Department of Transportation.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric P. Reif, with him Daniel I. Booker and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for plaintiff.

Stuart M. Bliwas, Assistant Attorney General, with him Edward V.A. Kussy, Assistant Attorney General, Edward A. Hosey, Assistant Attorney General, Robert W. Cunliffe, Deputy Attorney General, and J. Shane Creamer, Attorney General, for defendant.

Argued September 11, 1972, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT.


OPINION PER CURIAM, October 2, 1972:

The instant case is another of a series of cases filed in this Court since its inception seeking to judicially overturn the doctrine of sovereign immunity. In Lovrinoff et al. v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 3 Pa.Commw. 161, 281 A.2d 176 (1971),1 we declared (Judges CRUMLISH, JR. and MANDERINO dissenting) that the Commonwealth Court has no power...

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