A federal judge will not stop the planned closure of the Pyrex Glass Plant in Charleroi. According to reports, U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan has ruled that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office failed to prove that the company’s move to close to the plant violates antitrust laws. In a 20-page opinion, he wrote that “the court is sympathetic to employees whose jobs might be at risk and a long-time local facility that may cease production, in the specific context of this case, the court must narrowly consider the requirements of federal antitrust law and determine whether they have been met, they have not.” The move would eliminate nearly 300 jobs. Late last month, they began removing equipment from the plant and the state Attorney General’s Office filed a complaint and obtained a temporary restraining order halting the action. A spokesperson for the Attorney General, however, said that although the ruling is disappointing, the decision makes clear that the case is not over, so their antitrust litigation will go on. When asked to clarify what that means – he said, “We’ll leave it at that. We have to review the decision fully and determine the next steps.”