Berkley v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC

ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20132
No(s). 18-1042 (4th Cir. Jul 25, 2018)

The Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court's dismissal of landowners' challenge to FERC's approval of a natural gas pipeline. The landowners argued that the agency's practice of letting pipeline builders use eminent domain authority to take land once their project is approved is unconstitutional beca...