Court Opinion

ID: 9635830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:07:29.891918+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:37.336935
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                              WESTERN DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                  No. 35 WAP 2022
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION,                                    Appeal from the Order of the
                                               Commonwealth Court at No. 126
                     Appellee                  MD 2017 dated July 12, 2022

              V.

GRANT TOWNSHIP OF INDIANA COUNTY
AND THE GRANT TOWNSHIP BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS,

                     Appellants

                                      ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 22nd day of August, 2023, the July 12, 2022 Order of the

Commonwealth Court granting the Application for Summary Relief filed by Intervenor,

Pennsylvania General Energy Company, LLC, based on the grounds of res judicata and

collateral estoppel is AFFIRMED IN PART.    The portion of the Order that invalidates

Grant Township's Home Rule Charter in its entirety is VACATED.    We remand to the

Commonwealth Court to perform aseverability analysis.

      The order is affirmed as to the dismissal of the Department of Environmental

Protection's Petition for Review in the Nature of a Complaint and Grant Township's

Counterclaims.

      Jurisdiction relinquished.