Legal Opinion
MacHipongo Land & Coal Co. v. Commonwealth, Department of Environmental Resources
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 1, 1998PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELLEGRINI, Judge.
Before this Court is a motion for summary judgment filed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection (DER), the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) and Arthur A. Davis, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources (collectively, the Commonwealth) in response to a petition for review filed by Machipongo Land and Coal Company, Inc., the Victor E. Erickson Trust and Joseph Naughton (collectively, Coal Owners) challenging a regulation designating portions of their land unsuitable for surface mining.
On May 26, 1989, the Commonwealth…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal CouncilSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. MahonSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictisSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Lawton v. SteeleSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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3Cited by7 opinions
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