Case Name: COUNTY OF BUTLER, Respondent v. CENTURYLINK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; the United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications Enterprise Services, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Core Communications, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Intermedia Communications of Florida, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Level 3 Communications, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; TelCove of Eastern Pennsylvania, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; AT & T Corp., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Teleport Communications America, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; US LEC of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Comcast Phone of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Peerless Network of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; and ABC Companies 1 Through 20, Petitioners
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2017-12-26
Citations: 176 A.3d 852
Docket Number: No. 271 WAL 2017
Parties: COUNTY OF BUTLER, Respondent v. CENTURYLINK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; the United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications Enterprise Services, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Core Communications, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Intermedia Communications of Florida, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Level 3 Communications, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; TelCove of Eastern Pennsylvania, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; AT & T Corp., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Teleport Communications America, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; US LEC of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Comcast Phone of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Peerless Network of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; and ABC Companies 1 Through 20, Petitioners
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 176
Pages: 852–852

Head Matter:
COUNTY OF BUTLER, Respondent v. CENTURYLINK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; the United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications Enterprise Services, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Core Communications, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Intermedia Communications of Florida, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Level 3 Communications, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; TelCove of Eastern Pennsylvania, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; AT & T Corp., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Teleport Communications America, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; US LEC of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Comcast Phone of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Peerless Network of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; and ABC Companies 1 Through 20, Petitioners
No. 271 WAL 2017
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
December 26, 2017

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 26th day of December, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:
When the General Assembly plainly and unambiguously grants the right to enforce a statute to a particular Commonwealth agency, may a different plaintiff circumvent this legislative directive by attempting to enforce the statute through common-law damages claims?