Late last month the Seventh District Court of Appeals in Ohio upheld the appropriation of private land for a pipeline that will carry pure propane and pure butane, ruling that such fractionated natural gas liquids still constitute “petroleum” under Ohio’s eminent domain laws. The case is now on appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, but … Continue Reading
In 2005, the US Supreme Court held in Kelo v. City of New London that the city of New London, Connecticut could condemn 15 residential properties for a “public use” that entailed transferring the property to a new private owner. The majority opinion backstopped its expansive definition of “public use” by emphasizing that “nothing in [its] … Continue Reading
