PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES v. CITY OF LANCASTER

No. 55 MAP 2017 No. 57 MAP 2017.

214 A.3d 639 (2019)

PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, Appellant v. CITY OF LANCASTER and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Appellees. PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, v. City of Lancaster and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Cross-Appeal of: City of Lancaster.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: August 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna M. J. Clark, Esq. , Terrance J. Fitzpatrick, Esq. , Energy Association of Pennsylvania, John F. Povilaitis, Esq. , Alan Michael Seltzer, Esq. , Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, for Energy Association of Pennsylvania, Amicus Curiae.

Daniel Steven Cohen, Esq. , Cohen Law Group, P.C., for PA Municipal League, PA State Assoc of Twp Supervisors & PA State Assoc of Twp Commissioners, Amicus Curiae.

Anthony C. DeCusatis, Esq. , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, for Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. & Pennsylvania-American Water Company, Amicus Curiae.

Suzan DeBusk Paiva, Esq. , Verizon Communications, Inc., for Verizon, Amicus Curiae.

Charles Edward Thomas III, Esq. , Thomas, Niesen & Thomas, LLC, for Pennsylvania Telephone Association, Amicus Curiae.

Jason Gantcliffe Benion, Esq. , James John Kutz, Esq. , Post & Post, P.C., Walter W. Cohen, Esq. , Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, David Bruce MacGregor, Esq. , Sarah C. Yerger, Esq. , for PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, Appellant.

Hugh Joseph Algeo IV, Esq. , Michael Elmer Peters, Esq. , Michael Joseph Savona, Esq. , John A. Van Luvanee, Esq. , Eastburn and Gray, P.C., for City of Lancaster, Appellee.

James Anthony Mullins, Esq. , Bohdan R. Pankiw, Esq. , Robert Frank Young, Esq. , PA Public Utility Commission, for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

JUSTICE WECHT

The regulation of public utilities1 long has been entrusted to state law. Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Code ("the Code")2 confers administrative and regulatory authority upon the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (the "PUC"). In the case at hand, the City of Lancaster ("the City") enacted a measure ("Ordinance 16-2013" or "the Ordinance...

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