COLUMBIA GAS of PA., INC. v. PA. P.U.C.

Nos. 1713 C.D. 1986, 1716 C.D. 1986, 1726 C.D. 1986 and 1780 C.D. 1986.

104 Pa.Commw. 142 (1987)

521 A.2d 105

Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent. Pennsylvania Gas Association, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent. Equitable Gas Company, a division of Equitable Resources, Inc., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent. The Peoples Natural Gas Company, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan P. Paden, with him, J. Bruce Walter and Frank A. Sinon, Rhoads & Sinon, and Wallace R. Barnes and Thomas E. Morgan, for petitioner, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc.

Thomas J. Sniscak, with him, Joseph J. Malatesta, Jr., and Kevin J. McKeon, Malatesta, Hawke, McKeon & Morris, for petitioner, Pennsylvania Gas Association.

Lawrence B. Nydes, for petitioner, Equitable Gas Company.

Dennis J. Lewis, with him, Victoria Lee, Alder, Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., and William P. Boswell, for petitioner, The Peoples Natural Gas Company.

Daniel P. Delaney, Deputy Chief Counsel, with him, Charles D. Shields, Jr., Assistant Counsel, and Charles F. Hoffman, Chief Counsel, for respondent, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Barbara Stratton Kahoe, with her, Maurice A. Frater, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, for intervenor, Carnegie Natural Gas Company.

Walter A. Bunt, Jr., with him, Bruce Wiegand and George B. Foster, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, and Jay W. Dawson, for intervenor, T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company.

Argued October 8, 1986, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges CRAIG, MacPHAIL, DOYLE, BARRY, COLINS and PALLADINO.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., February 20, 1987:

On November 8, 1985, an administrative law judge entered an interim order directing the Carnegie Natural Gas Company (Carnegie) to cease serving two former gas customers1 of Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. (Columbia). The administrative law judge treated exceptions filed to this order as a request for interlocutory appeal2 and certified to the...

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