PORT AUTHORITY v. PA. PUBLIC UTIL. COM'N


494 Pa. 250 (1981)

431 A.2d 243

PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Appellant (Appellant in the Commonwealth Court) v. PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, Appellee (Appellee in the Commonwealth Court) Colonial Taxi Company, Inc., et al., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Brown, Dennis L. Veraldi, James H. Norris, Ruffin, Hazlett, Snyder, Brown & Jack, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

George M. Kaski, Chief Counsel, Joseph J. Malatesta, Jr., Deputy Chief Counsel, Daniel P. Delaney, Asst. Counsel, Harrisburg, for appellee.

Richard S. Dorfzaun, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, for Yellow Cab Co. of Pittsburgh.

William A. Gray, Wick, Vuono & Lavelle, Pittsburgh, for Open Doors etc.

Arthur J. Diskin, Pittsburgh, for North Hills Green Cab, et al. and Colonial Taxi Company, Inc., et al.

Jerome Solomon, Brandt, Milnes, Rea & Malone, John A. Pillar, Pittsburgh, for Tube City Taxicab Co., Inc., et al.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.


OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court affirming the orders of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ("PUC") granting to intervenors, five companies in Allegheny County, the right to provide paratransit service.1 At issue is whether the PUC has been divested of jurisdiction over paratransit within Allegheny County by the Second Class...

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