{"id":1225,"date":"2019-02-12T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2019\/02\/12\/legal-trend-railroads-and-eminent-domain-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T22:57:00","slug":"legal-trend-railroads-and-eminent-domain-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-railroads-and-eminent-domain-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Railroads and Eminent Domain in Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which side is singing praises of a court order?\u00a0Opponents to high speed rail<\/p>\n<p>What is the court order? A district court order states that two companies, concerning high speed rail, \u201care not a railroad or interurban electric company.\u201d The order applies to 3 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter? The power to condemn property with eminent domain is derived from the status as a railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the power of eminent domain matter? In addition to land aquisition, it also allows the company onto land to survey prior to condemnation<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean legislatively? Watch the definition of railroad or other similar entities that have eminent domain authority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/Opponents-of-Houston-Dallas-bullet-train-trumpet-13607501.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Opponents of Houston-Dallas bullet train trumpet ruling that company is not a railroad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/content\/news\/Leon-County-residents-celebrating-district-judges-ruling-on-proposed-bullet-train-505693511.html\">KBTX |\u00a0Leon County residents celebrate judge&#8217;s ruling on proposed bullet train<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which side is singing praises of a court order?\u00a0Opponents to high speed rail<\/p>\n<p>What is the court order? A district court order states that two companies, concerning high speed rail, \u201care not a railroad or interurban electric company.\u201d The order applies to 3 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter? The power to condemn property with eminent domain is derived from the status as a railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the power of eminent domain matter? In addition to land aquisition, it also allows the company onto land to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,13,4,14,3,28,2,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-activism","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-pre-condemnation-access","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}