
    COUNTY OF BUTLER, Respondent v. CENTURYLINK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; the United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Consolidated Communications Enterprise Services, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Core Communications, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Intermedia Communications of Florida, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Level 3 Communications, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; TelCove of Eastern Pennsylvania, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; AT & T Corp., and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Teleport Communications America, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; US LEC of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Comcast Phone of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; Peerless Network of Pennsylvania, LLC, and All Subsidiaries and Related Entities; and ABC Companies 1 Through 20, Petitioners
    No. 271 WAL 2017
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    December 26, 2017
   ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 26th day of December, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:

When the General Assembly plainly and unambiguously grants the right to enforce a statute to a particular Commonwealth agency, may a different plaintiff circumvent this legislative directive by attempting to enforce the statute through common-law damages claims?  