Borough of Jefferson v. Century III Associates

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The Borough of Jefferson (Borough) filed a complaint in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, naming as defendants the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (DER), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDot), the Borough of West Mifflin (West Mifflin) and three private enterprises which we gather from the complaint built a shopping center called Century III Mall in West Mifflin Borough. The gravamen of the single count of the complaint is that, from 1979 until the present, the defendants’ negligent and unreasonable actions,…