Legal Opinion
Empire Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 1, 1996PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.
Empire Sanitary Landfill, Inc. (“Empire”) and Danella Environmental Technologies, Inc. (“Danella”) appeal an order of Commonwealth Court partially granting a motion for sum mary judgment filed by the Commonwealth’s Department of Environmental Resources (“DER”) and Lehigh County Department of Planning and Development, Office of Solid Waste Management (“County”) regarding Empire’s and Danella’s challenges to The Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, Act of July 28, 1988, P.L. 556, 53 P.S. §§ 4000.101 et seq. (“Act”) and the…
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