{"id":274,"date":"2019-09-26T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-09-26T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T12:52:40","slug":"pipeline-developers-beware-third-circuit-disallows-eminent-domain-over-state-lands-under-natural-gas-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2019\/09\/26\/pipeline-developers-beware-third-circuit-disallows-eminent-domain-over-state-lands-under-natural-gas-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline Developers Beware: Third Circuit Disallows Eminent Domain Over State Lands Under Natural Gas Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a unanimous, precedential opinion issued on September 10, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Natural Gas Act (NGA), 15 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a0717,\u00a0<i>et seq.<\/i>, does not abrogate state sovereign immunity and does not give private pipeline companies the power in federal court proceedings to condemn property owned by states.\u00a0<i>See\u00a0<\/i><a title=\"In re PennEast Pipeline Co.\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/191191p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>In re PennEast Pipeline Co.<\/i>, F.3d , Nos. 19-1191 through 19-1232, 2019 WL 4265190 (3d Cir. Sept. 10, 2019)<\/a>. This decision\u2014the first on this topic by any federal appellate court\u2014may have far-reaching implications for pipeline development and other infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/pipeline_developers_beware_third_circuit_disallows_eminent_domain_state_lands_0919.html\">View the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a unanimous, precedential opinion issued on September 10, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Natural Gas Act (NGA), 15 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a0717,\u00a0et seq., does not abrogate state sovereign immunity and does not give private pipeline companies the power in federal court proceedings to condemn property owned by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2019\/09\/26\/pipeline-developers-beware-third-circuit-disallows-eminent-domain-over-state-lands-under-natural-gas-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pipeline Developers Beware: Third Circuit Disallows Eminent Domain Over State Lands Under Natural Gas Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,227,166,224,226,56,188,155],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eminent-domain","tag-energy","tag-leah-mintz","tag-natural-gas-act","tag-pipeline","tag-robert-byer","tag-third-circuit","tag-u-s-court-of-appeals-for-the-third-circuit"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}