Pipelines

This morning, the Supreme Court declined to review a case we’ve been following, Like v. Transcontiental Gas Pipe Line Co., No. 18-1206. 

This is the one in which landowners are challenging the district court’s issuance of an injunction in a Natural Gas Act taking which allow a private condemnor to obtain immediate possession of

North Dakota, as you might expect, can be cold in the winter. So cold that railroad switches need to be heated, else they get… frozen. The railroad uses refillable propane tanks, but these need to be refilled from time to time. And North Dakota is so cold in the winter that sometimes, the propane trucks

Here’s what we’re reading today, in between real work:

The Arizona Court of Appeals’ opinion in Arizona Electrical Power Cooperative v. DJL 2007 LLC, No. 1 CA-CV 16-0097 (May 9, 2019), is about the date of valuation in eminent domain, but beyond that is interesting to us because it sheds light on a case we’ve been following about natural gas pipelines and the

Here’s the Reply Brief in a case which we’ve been following (and in which we filed this amici brief). This is the one in which landowners are challenging the district court’s issuance of an injunction in a Natural Gas Act taking which allow a private condemnor to obtain immediate possession of the land being

Here’s the Brief in Opposition, in Like v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC, No. 18-1206 (Apr. 17, 2019), the case which we’ve been following (and in which we filed this amici brief). 

This is the case in which landowners are challenging the district court’s issuance of an injunction in a Natural

Here’s the cert petition filed recently in yet another case (seeking review of the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion) which challenges a federal court issuing an injunction in a Natural Gas Act taking allowing a private condemnor to obtain immediate possession of the land being condemned, even though the NGA does not delegate to pipeline condemnors

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Last week, author Howard Mansfield joined us at the William and Mary Law School for two sessions about his recently-published book, “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief.”  His book is about property, property rights, and what he has discovered about