{"id":372,"date":"2015-10-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/10\/01\/pre-condemnation-surveying-challenged-as-unconstitutional-in-federal-court\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:30:00","slug":"pre-condemnation-surveying-challenged-as-unconstitutional-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/pre-condemnation-surveying-challenged-as-unconstitutional-in-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-condemnation Surveying Challenged as Unconstitutional in Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is involved in this challenge to pre-condemnation access to land?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a group of landowners<\/p>\n<p><strong>What pre-condemnation is being challenged?<\/strong>\u00a0A federal court looked at a state law that allowed a condemning entity, in this case a pipeline, to enter land it would otherwise condemn for the purpose of surveying the land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What arguments did landowners make against pre-condemnation access?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;state law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking their property, seizing their property rights and failing to give due legal process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who won?<\/strong>\u00a0Pipelines. The judge said that pre-condmenation access to survey was consistent with common law and had been in long practice in Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/article_c7cd848a-f256-56be-bb85-c72c654e6a32.html\">Richmond Times Dispatch |\u00a0Federal judge upholds state law allowing surveys of private property for gas pipeline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is involved in this challenge to pre-condemnation access to land?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a group of landowners<\/p>\n<p><strong>What pre-condemnation is being challenged?<\/strong>\u00a0A federal court looked at a state law that allowed a condemning entity, in this case a pipeline, to enter land it would otherwise condemn for the purpose of surveying the land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What arguments did landowners make against pre-condemnation access?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;state law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking their property, seizing their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-pre-condemnation-access","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}