Last week’s legal victory for Seminole Electric over state regulators was a slam dunk, a review of the unanimous Fifth District Court of Appeals decision shows. The judges said Friday that the denial by Michael Sole, the state Department of Environmental Protection secretary, of a permit to expand the Palatka coal-fired power plant was unfounded. And the court ordered Sole to issue the permit, called a site certification. “Despite lengthy factual discussion preceding our analysis, the resolution of this case is quite simple,” the court’s ruling says. “In short, the (DEP) secretary had no legal basis to deny certification of...