Texas Farmers Seek Eminent Domain Reform
Texas Farm Bureau’s leadership conference this year focused on eminent domain as a top priority in this year’s legislative session, and the ball is already...
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Landowner Victory in Ellis County as 2nd Judge Denies Texas Central Railway’s Request to Be Declared Railroad
Eminent domain attorneys Glenn Sodd, Jason Sodd and Jody McSpadden are proud to have contributed to a recent legal victory for Ellis County landowners Ronny...
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Look for Eminent Domain Reform Debate in the 2019 Texas Legislative Session
Texas’ sprawling urban centers continue to expand into once-rural areas, and the oil and gas boom is increasing the industry’s need to run pipelines and...
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Negotiating a Pipeline Easement in Texas
The vast reserves of oil and gas located in West Texas’ Permian Basin have helped the U.S. become the leading energy producing country in the...
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Eminent Domain Dispute: Do Pipelines Serve Public Interest When Their Oil and Gas is Sold Overseas?
Advances in hydraulic fracturing and drilling technologies have allowed energy companies to produce record amounts of oil and gas from West Texas shale deposits. This...
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Waxahachie Entrepreneur Fights TXDoT Highway Project
While it may be hard to stop an eminent domain project, it is important that the landowners receive just compensation for their property and losses....
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Texas Court of Appeals Sides with Landowners in Easement Dispute
Easements in Texas provide individuals or entities like utility companies with the right to use or access a person’s property for a particular purpose. It’s...
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The Texas Bullet Train: A Pig In A Poke? We’ve Seen It Before
Texas Central Partners is doing all it can to create the appearance that the Dallas to Houston high-speed rail project is “on-track” (pun intended), but...
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The Reason Foundation Raises Many Concerns about the Texas High Speed Rail Project
One of the TCR’s big selling points of their proposed high speed rail line is that it will be privately financed and require no taxpayer...
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Texas Lawmakers Put the Brakes on High Speed Rail
Since the Texas Central Railroad announced plans to build a high speed rail connecting Dallas to Houston, many landowners whose property is located along the...
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