Metropolitan Edison Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

OPINION OF THE COURT

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to decide the pre-clusive effect of a state utility agency’s ruling, which has been affirmed by Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court and denied review by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Although the Appellants, electric utility companies Metropolitan Edison Co. (“Mei>-Ed”) and Pennsylvania Electric Co. (“Penelec”) (collectively, the “Companies”), also, in effect, invite us to review the agency’s ruling on the merits, we need not and do not take that step.

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