{"id":330,"date":"2015-08-19T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/08\/19\/legal-trend-private-companies-denied-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:57:00","slug":"legal-trend-private-companies-denied-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-private-companies-denied-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Private Companies Denied Eminent Domain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brewing legal dispute in Iowa highlights the momentum away from allowing eminent domain authority for pipelines, transmission lines, and other utilities that are privately owned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Iowa Attorney:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The larger issue &#8212; what it really comes down to &#8212; is whether these guys have the power of eminent domain. this is not a utility, it is not public, it is not providing any necessary public service. A number of other cases have rejected such eminent domain arguments &#8212; the Bluegrass Pipeline case in Kentucky, the Clean Line case in Missouri, and a West Virginia district court ruling on a natural gas pipeline. I think the courts have trended a bit toward the constitution as opposed to private interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spencerdailyreporter.com\/story\/2222539.html\">Spencer Daily Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brewing legal dispute in Iowa highlights the momentum away from allowing eminent domain authority for pipelines, transmission lines, and other utilities that are privately owned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Iowa Attorney:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The larger issue &#8212; what it really comes down to &#8212; is whether these guys have the power of eminent domain. this is not a utility, it is not public, it is not providing any necessary public service. A number of other cases have rejected such eminent domain arguments &#8212; the Bluegrass Pipeline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,28,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-transmission-lines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}