{"id":95,"date":"2014-11-04T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2014\/11\/04\/eminent-domain-to-condemn-a-water-utility\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:55:00","slug":"eminent-domain-to-condemn-a-water-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/eminent-domain-to-condemn-a-water-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain to Condemn a Water Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when you think eminent domain, you think a governmental entity is trying to acquire land. The Mountain Water Company is facing eminent domain by Missoula, MT.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Mountain\u00a0Water Company is privately owned and operated. [<a href=\"http:\/\/missoulanews.bigskypress.com\/IndyBlog\/archives\/2014\/11\/03\/mountain-water-company-makes-its-case-against-the-city-in-a-new-website\">Missoula Independent<\/a>] \u00a0Legal fees in this eminent domain case for Missoula are $750,000 and there remains 6 months before trial. Public support favors using eminent domain. [<a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/public-voices-support-for-eminent-domain-case-against-mountain-water\/article_a3e62665-1651-5572-8d2d-4298b824a34f.html\">Missoulian<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The ordeal raises an interesting question, can a private utility company be acquired by eminent domain?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when you think eminent domain, you think a governmental entity is trying to acquire land. The Mountain Water Company is facing eminent domain by Missoula, MT.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Mountain\u00a0Water Company is privately owned and operated. [<a href=\"http:\/\/missoulanews.bigskypress.com\/IndyBlog\/archives\/2014\/11\/03\/mountain-water-company-makes-its-case-against-the-city-in-a-new-website\">Missoula Independent<\/a>] \u00a0Legal fees in this eminent domain case for Missoula are $750,000 and th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}