Court rules against I.F. plan to use eminent domain outside city limits
“The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the city of Idaho Falls cannot use eminent domain to condemn easements on property located outside city limits for the purpose of running electric transmission lines.
“The panel held that municipalities in Idaho do not have the power to exercise eminent domain extraterritorially for the purpose of constructing electric transmission lines,” U.S. Judge N. Randy Smith wrote in the decision. “The panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in an action brought by property owners.””
Hancock, Jimmy. Idaho State Journal 1 January 2014.