Maryland Landowners Want Supreme Court to Weigh in on Eminent Domain Battle

Landowners petition U.S. Supreme Court in Piedmont power line case

A group of Maryland landowners aggrieved by land surveys for a proposed 67-mile electricity transmission line across northern Maryland are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case.

Supreme Court urged to protect homeowners' property rights re data case

A group of Maryland property owners are urging the Supreme Court to get involved in a property rights fight over the potential construction of power lines amid a data center boom in the region. Data center development and increased energy production to support those data centers have been hot-button issues across the country in recent […]

Maryland landowners want Supreme Court to weigh in on eminent domain battle

Attorneys are now eyeing the highest court in the land as the next step in a years-long power struggle over landowners' rights.The nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to challenge the latest ruling in the case of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, or MPRP."We see this as an eminent domain abuse type of case," Aaron Newell said.Newell, an attorney with the PLF, says the organization has been k…

New Cert Petition (Ours): Can Preliminary Injunctions Convey Eminent Domain Powers When There’s Been No Delegation Of Eminent Domain?

Here's the cert petition we just filed asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit decision (which we posted about in "CA4 Puts The Cart Before The Horse: Private Entity Doesn’t Have The Power Of Eminent Domain, But It Is Likely To Get It If Only Those Pesky Owners Were Stopped From Exercising Their Right To Exclude").