First Circuit Holds That Common Carrier Cannot Expropriate Private Property to Perform Routine Service and Maintenance on its Ethylene Pipeline
The Energy Law
JULY 28, 2009
ExxonMobil wanted to build an access road so that it could perform routine service and maintenance on one of its ethylene pipelines. For there to be a public purpose, there must be a general public right to a definite use of the property, as distinguished from the public benefiting due to property being used by a corporation or an individual.
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