{"id":802,"date":"2017-05-15T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/05\/15\/3-points-from-eminent-domain-pits-property-rights-vs-energy\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:28:00","slug":"3-points-from-eminent-domain-pits-property-rights-vs-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/3-points-from-eminent-domain-pits-property-rights-vs-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Points from Eminent Domain Pits Property Rights vs. Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background for article<\/strong>: A land owner who was offered\u00a0\u00a0less than $50,000 for mile-long swath of pasture and oak trees that abuts the family cemetery, and a commissioners court awarded more than $600,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the article sets up land owners v. energy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Landowners claim that not allowing a land owner who prevails to be awarded attorney fees &#8220;\u200bprovides incentives for utilities, pipeline companies and government entities to undervalue properties in eminent domain takings&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Energy industry argument against allowing for an award of attorney fees is that douing so would &#8220;encourage more lawsuits and raise the cost of projects.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s driving the energy v. land owner rhetoric now:\n<ul>\n<li>Pipelines in the Permuian Basin<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Eminent-domain-fight-pits-two-of-Texas-s-sacred-11141567.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Eminent domain fight pits two of Texas&#8217; sacred cows against each other<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background for article<\/strong>: A land owner who was offered\u00a0\u00a0less than $50,000 for mile-long swath of pasture and oak trees that abuts the family cemetery, and a commissioners court awarded more than $600,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the article sets up land owners v. energy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Landowners claim that not allowing a land owner who prevails to be awarded attorney fees &#8220;\u200bprovides incentives for utilities, pipeline companies and government entities to undervalue properties in eminent domain takings&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Energy industry argument\u2026<\/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":[49,4,14,28,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}