Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-06-20 13:12:13.618291+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:30:03.090842
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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as In
re Application of Dayton Power & Light Co., Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-3490.]

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                          SLIP OPINION NO. 2016-OHIO-3490
            IN RE APPLICATION OF DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY TO
    ESTABLISH A STANDARD SERVICE OFFER IN THE FORM OF AN ELECTRIC
SECURITY PLAN, ETC.; INDUSTRIAL ENERGY USERS-OHIO ET AL., APPELLANTS
     AND CROSS-APPELLEES;          DAYTON POWER & LIGHT COMPANY ET AL.,
     APPELLEES AND CROSS-APPELLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION,
                          APPELLEE AND CROSS-APPELLEE.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
 may be cited as In re Application of Dayton Power & Light Co., Slip Opinion
                                  No. 2016-Ohio-3490.]
Decision of Public Utilities Commission reversed on the authority of In re
        Application of Columbus S. Power Co.
       (No. 2014-1505—Submitted June 14, 2016—Decided June 20, 2016.)
 APPEAL and CROSS-APPEAL from the Public Utilities Commission, Nos. 12-426-
       EL-SSO, 12-427-EL-ATA, 12-428-EL-AAM, 12-429-EL-WVR, and
                                    12-672-EL-RDR.
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                            SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

       {¶ 1} The decision of the Public Utilities Commission is reversed on the
authority of In re Application of Columbus S. Power Co., ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2016-
Ohio-1608, ___ N.E.3d ___.
       O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, KENNEDY, FRENCH, and
O’NEILL, JJ., concur.
       LANZINGER, J., dissents.
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       McNees, Wallace & Nurick, L.L.C., Samuel C. Randazzo, Frank P. Darr,
and Matthew R. Pritchard, for appellant and cross-appellee Industrial Energy
Users-Ohio.
       Bruce J. Weston, Consumers’ Counsel, and Maureen R. Grady and Terry L.
Etter, Assistant Consumers’ Counsel, for appellant and cross-appellee Office of the
Ohio Consumers’ Counsel.
       Michael DeWine, Attorney General, and William L. Wright, Thomas W.
McNamee, and Werner L. Margard III, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee
and cross-appellee, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
       Judi L. Sobecki; Faruki, Ireland & Cox, P.L.L., Charles J. Faruki, Jeffrey S.
Sharkey, and Christopher C. Hollon, for appellee and cross-appellant, Dayton
Power & Light Company.
       Colleen L. Mooney, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Partners for
Affordable Energy.
       Ellis Jacobs, urging reversal for amicus curiae Edgemont Neighborhood
Coalition.
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