3rd Circuit Vacates Ruling; Pipeline Company’s Eminent Domain Power Limited

Mealey's (September 11, 2019, 12:53 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 10 vacated and remanded a district court ruling and held that claims brought by a pipeline against the state of New Jersey should be dismissed because the pipeline company does not have all the rights of the federal government with regard to the power of eminent domain simply by virtue of the fact that the government delegated some of that power to the company (In re PennEast Pipeline Company LLC, No. 19-1192, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 27254)....