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In an effort to keep utilities off private lands for surveying, bills in Virginia look to reign in the ability to survey within eminent domain powers.
Democrats are lining up to defend the utilities right to access private lands. Republicans are lining up on the other side.
Republicans also want utilities with eminent domain authority subject to open records. Watchdog.org
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A list of why eminent domain is necessary is not something that occurs with frequency. A law professor lists reasons why eminent domain is necessary in Detroit:
Providing great material for 2015 bills in Texas, The Nebraska Supreme Court, making reference to Denbury, issued an opinion on the constitutionality of a pipeline certification. Read More: Information Intelligence
The Court said we don’t like it, but that pesky super majority threshold to declare the statute unconstitutional isn’t …
The landowners trying to stop Keystone XL in Nebraska were dealt a blow in the Friday, January 9th, ruling of the Nebraska Supreme Court. Landowners won a majority of the Court, but not super majority. Highlights:
The Department of Transportation is condemning intangible property by amending it’s rules. Connecticut’s Department of Transportation is condemning bus routes used by private bus companies, because the state has a new bus plan to roll out.
The private transportation companies have sued. The bus routes operate with a CCN from the Department of Transportation.
The first judge to hear this case said the Dept. of Transportation has proper authority to condemn this intangible p…
New York prohibits fracking. Mineral rights owners and companies with existing leases may file suit claiming that the fracking prohibition is tantamount to the state government taking their private property.
6 years of litigation and we might see the first jury trial. Here’s what happened:
Texas Rice Land Partners Ltd. v. the Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas has been a hot legal topic for years. The repurcussions have been:
Information Intelligence has written about the pending TX Supreme Court case about a pipeline that owes a landowner a hefty judgment and hasn’t paid it. The case is gaining attention and momentum. TPPF weighs in on the case of the non-paying pipeline:
This week TPPF released a private property rights paper about a pipeline company facing a judgment in excess of $1.6M against it. The judgment is unpaid and no bond is posted for appeal. It has ruffled feathers.
In the paper, TPPF reminds us transmission lines are no different that pipelines in that they both are private companies that have the power of eminent domain.
TPPF stresses 2 major points: