TransCanada Asks Texas Supreme Court to Skip Keystone Review
“Crawford is one of a handful of Texas farmers fighting TransCanada’s use of eminent domain under various legal theories, which has sparked a statewide debate over property rights. None of the challengers has prevailed so far, and Crawford’s case is the second to reach the Texas Supreme Court.
TransCanada initially said in court filings that it didn’t think a formal answer to Crawford’s request for review was required. The company’s filing at the high court in Austin yesterday came after the justices expressed interest in hearing the landowner’s case.
The company urged the high court to refuse Crawford’s request, just as the justices declined last year to review a similar Keystone challenge from Rhinoceros Ventures. That group owns property near Beaumont, at the pipeline’s southern terminus.”
Calkins, Laurel Brubaker. Bloomberg Business Week 7 February 2014.