Legal Trend. Delegating Eminent Domain to an Energy Company is Constitutional.

The 5th circuit is chiming in on whether Texas delegation of eminent domain authority to a pipeline is a violation of the constitution.

The 5th circuit’s opinion- Probably Constitutional.

Why just probably Constitutiona? Because the ruling related to an injunction not the issue of constitutionality itself. 

Boerschig v. Trans-Pecos Pipeline, L.L.C. , No.  16-50931 (Oct. 3, 2017)

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