First Circuit Holds That Common Carrier Cannot Expropriate Private Property to Perform Routine Service and Maintenance on its Ethylene Pipeline
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 28, 2009
By Emma J. Hinnigan In ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., 08-2347 (La. App. 1. Cir. 5/13/09), the First Circuit held that ExxonMobil was not entitled to expropriate land owned by Union Pacific because the expropriation was not for a public purpose. ExxonMobil wanted to build an access road so that it could perform routine service and maintenance on one of its ethylene pipelines.
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