{"id":678,"date":"2016-11-15T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/11\/15\/legal-trend-no-pre-condemnation-access-1-state-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:13:00","slug":"legal-trend-no-pre-condemnation-access-1-state-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-no-pre-condemnation-access-1-state-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend. No Pre-condemnation Access. +1 State Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Requiring that land owners allow precondemnation access to their land for pipelines is going out of fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest court to side against pipelines in eminent domain:<\/strong>\u00a0The West Virigina State Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the West Virigina Supreme Court have to say?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unconvinced the pipeline serves a public benefit<\/li>\n<li>if there is no public benefit, there is no eminent domain and there is no access to land without land owner consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why did the court decide there was no public benefit in the pipeline?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court determined that the primary purpose of the pipeline was to move product from Northern West Virginia to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the U.S.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;no \u201cdefinitive evidence\u201d that any non-MVP affiliated gas producers would benefit from the pipeline.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/news-business\/20161115\/landowners-win-case-to-block-unauthorized-pipeline-surveys\">Charleston Gazette Mail |\u00a0Landowners win case to block unauthorized pipeline surveys<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requiring that land owners allow precondemnation access to their land for pipelines is going out of fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest court to side against pipelines in eminent domain:<\/strong>\u00a0The West Virigina State Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the West Virigina Supreme Court have to say?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unconvinced the pipeline serves a public benefit<\/li>\n<li>if there is no public benefit, there is no eminent domain and there is no access to land without land owner consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why did the court decide there was no public benefit in the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,4,6,3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-legal-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-pre-condemnation-access","category-public-use-or-benefit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}