{"id":140,"date":"2015-01-12T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/01\/12\/legal-trend-ne-sct-clears-way-for-pipeline-mentions-landowners-success-in-denbury\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:04:00","slug":"legal-trend-ne-sct-clears-way-for-pipeline-mentions-landowners-success-in-denbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-ne-sct-clears-way-for-pipeline-mentions-landowners-success-in-denbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: NE SCT Clears Way for Pipeline. Mentions Landowners Success in Denbury."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u00a0super majority.\u00a0Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pg. 38: the NE Court cites Denbury.\n<ul>\n<li>Writing: &#8221; The Texas Supreme Court has addressed this issue in the context of pipeline carriers.150 It reversed a court of appeals\u2019 decision that a property owner could not challenge a common carrier certification by a pub- lic service commission.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It held that Texas statutes authorizing eminent domain power for common carriers do not include the owner of a pipeline built for the owner\u2019s exclusive use. &#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The NE Court ruled on constitutionality of a statute that transfered power to the Govenror and\u00a0allowed expedited permitting for pipelines. Under the statute, the Governor could directly authorize eminent domain for a project.\n<ul>\n<li>A majority of the Court ruled the statute unconstitutional, BUT<\/li>\n<li>The NE Constitution requires a super majority to overturn statutes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>No supermajority existed to find the statute unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Court opines that citizens deserve a hearing on the merits- the transfer of power and eminent domain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The NE Court did not rule on eminent domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2015\/01\/09\/read-the-ruling-nebraska-court-clears-way-for-keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">WSJ<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/supremecourt.nebraska.gov\/sites\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/files\/sc\/opinions\/s14-158.pdf\">Nebraska Supreme Court Opinion<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyyonder.com\/pipeline-issue-unresolved-say-nebraska-lawyers\/2015\/01\/13\/7673\">Response from Landowner Attorneys: The Fight for Property Rights Continues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u00a0super majority.\u00a0Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pg. 38: the NE Court cites Denbury.\n<ul>\n<li>Writing: &#8221; The Texas Supreme Court has addressed this issue in the context of pipeline carriers.150 It reversed a court of appeals\u2019 decision that a property owner could not challenge a common carrier certification by a pu&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[4,14,6,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}