{"id":131,"date":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/01\/03\/tx-rice-partners-v-denbury-a-history-lesson\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","slug":"tx-rice-partners-v-denbury-a-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/tx-rice-partners-v-denbury-a-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Rice Partners v. Denbury: A history lesson."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 years of litigation and we might see the first jury trial. Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denbury wanted to build a pipeline. \u00a0It needed land. Landowners and Denbury were unable to come to an agreement. Eminent Domain proceedings ensued.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trial Court:\u00a0Denbury is a common carrier with eminent domain authority.<\/li>\n<li>Appellate Court: Yes, common carrier. Yes, eminent domain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>TX Supreme Court: Not a common carrier. No eminent domain. Here&#8217;s what we say establishes a\u00a0common carrier. Appellate Court, you listen to arguments again.<\/li>\n<li>December 18, 2014 Oral Arguments before the Appellate Court in\u00a0Beaumont.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/setexasrecord.com\/news\/300670-beaumont-justices-hear-oral-arguments-pipeline-common-carrier-case\">Southeast Texas Record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened as a result of the litigation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 Texas Legislature tries to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&amp;Bill=HB2748\">HB 2748<\/a>. it dies on a point of order. Private property rights are a very big deal to Texans and they let their politicians know that.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Summer 2014 Texas Railroad Commission uses rulemaking to clarify common carrier rules. Private property rights supporters remain displeased.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2015: Inevitable legislative fight. Private Property Rights are sacred in Texas. Like football.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 years of litigation and we might see the first jury trial. Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denbury wanted to build a pipeline. \u00a0It needed land. Landowners and Denbury were unable to come to an agreement. Eminent Domain proceedings ensued.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trial Court:\u00a0Denbury is a common carrier with eminent domain authority.<\/li>\n<li>Appellate Court: Yes, common carrier. Yes, eminent domain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>TX Supreme Court: Not a common carrier. No eminent domain. Here&#8217;s what we say establish&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4,14,6,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-legislation","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}