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“Quick Take” Eminent Domain: How Energy Companies Can Take Farmland for Pipelines

Megan Todd

Sep 27, 2019
3 min

“Quick Take” Eminent Domain: How Energy Companies Can Take Farmland for Pipelines

By Margaret Todd This article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. Natural gas companies are routinely granted authority by the government to take private lands for public use before they pay the landowner. The practice, known as “quick take” eminent domain, leaves many landowners curious about how and why private companies are given such power. In Givens v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, a Virginia farm owner is challenging a gas c

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Inverse Condemnation: When the Government Inadvertently “Takes” Your Property

Nicole Cook

May 14, 2018
3 min

Inverse Condemnation: When the Government Inadvertently “Takes” Your Property

By Nicole Cook This article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. In my February 14, 2018 post, I explained the eminent domain power of the government—the power of the government to take private property rights for public use—and the government’s and landowner’s rights and responsibilities during the condemnation process. This includes that the government may not possess the property until it provides the owner with “just compensatio

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Nicole Cook

Feb 14, 2018
4 min

Can The Government Take My Property?

By Nicole Cook Our increasing need for energy, transit, and other infrastructure has more and more farmers who own or lease land wondering about the power of the government, or of entities like natural gas companies granted authority by the government, to take private property for public use. The time for you to understand whether, when and why the government has a right to take your property, what rights you have, and what you can do in the event that the government decides

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