New Jersey: Supreme Court Review Of Pipeline Ruling Unwarranted; Criteria Not Met

Mealey's (June 4, 2020, 10:39 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The state of New Jersey filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 2 contending that “none of the traditional criteria support certiorari” sought by a pipeline company that wants to reverse a lower court’s ruling that determined that the company did not have the authority to exercise the federal government’s power of eminent domain to secure rights of way for the construction of an interstate pipeline that would carry hydraulically fractured gas (PennEast Pipeline Company LLC v. New Jersey, et al., No. 19A836, U.S. Sup.)....