Panel: Natural Gas Company May Exercise Eminent Domain In Pipeline Project

(November 2, 2018, 2:33 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 30 ruled that a group of landowners who opposed an interstate gas pipeline “fail to recognize” a federal court’s equitable power to enter preliminary injunctions once substantive rights are determined with regard to the standard condemnation powers granted to natural gas companies and that the pipeline company met all the requirements to exercise eminent domain (Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company LLC v. Permanent Easements for 2.14 Acres, et al., No. 17-3075; Transcontinental Gas Pipeline LLC v. Permanent Easement for 2.02 Acres, et al., No. 17-3076; Transcontinental Gas Pipeline LLC v. Permanent Easement for 1.33 Acres, et al., No. 17-3115; Transcontinental Gas Pipeline LLC v. Permanent Easement for 0.94 Acres, et al., No. 17-3116, 3rd Cir.)....

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