U.S. Supreme Court Seeks Solicitor General’s View On Fracking Pipeline Case

Mealey's (June 29, 2020, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 invited the U.S. solicitor general to file a brief in a case brought by a hydraulic fracturing pipeline company against the state of New Jersey as the high court considers granting certiorari and hearing the company’s petition 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 pipeline’s construction (PennEast Pipeline Company LLC v. New Jersey, et al., No. 19A836, U.S. Sup.)....