SOC. HILL CIVIC ASS'N v. GAMING CONTROL BD.


928 A.2d 175 (2007)

SOCIETY HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION, Queen Village Neighbors Association, Pennsport Civic Association, Whitman Council, Inc., Paul Neuwirth, Rita Gaudet Devecchis, Barbara Seiple and Katheleen McGrann, Petitioners v. The PENNSYLVANIA GAMING CONTROL BOARD, Respondent HSP Gaming, LP, Intervenor, Philadelphia Entertainment and Development Partners, LP, Intervenor, Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. and PNK (PA), LLC, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 4, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Michael Brown, John M. Donnelly, Pro Hac Vice, Levine, Staller, Sklar, Chan, Brown & Donnelly, P.A., Atlantic City, NJ; Jennifer M. McHugh, Stephen A. Cozen, F. Warren Jacoby, Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia; William H. Lamb, Scott Russel Withers, Lamb McErlane, West Chester; Richard A. Sprague, Charles J. Hardy, Thomas A. Sprague, Sprague & Sprague, Philadelphia, for HSP Gaming LP, intervenor.

Eric G. Fikry, Jeffrey Brent Rotwitt, Stephen David Schrier, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, LLP, Philadelphia, for Philadelphia Entertainment and Development Partners, LP, intervenor.

Andrew J. Giorgione, Harrisburg, for Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. and PNK (PA), LLC, intervenors.

Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., PA Office of Atty. Gen., for the Com. of PA, participant.

Adrian Renz King, Jr., Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, for Keystone Redevelopment Partners, LLC, participant.

Larry D. Silver, Langsam Stevens & Silver, LLP, Philadelphia, for Society Hill Civic Association, et al., petitioners.

Richard Douglas Sherman, Frank T. Donaghue, Linda S. Lloyd, Harrisburg; Arlene Fickler, Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr., Hoyle Fickler Herschel & Mathes, LLP, Philadelphia, for PA Gaming Control Bd., respondent.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, BALDWIN and FITZGERALD, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This direct appeal pursuant to Section 1204 of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act ("Gaming Act"), 4 Pa.C.S. § 1204, was commenced in this Court by the filing of a petition for review of the February 1, 2007 order of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board ("Board"). Such order granted conditional licenses to Philadelphia Entertainment & Development Partners, L.P., d/b/a Foxwoods Casino ("PEDP"), and HSP...

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