JMEH Partner Justin Hodge interviewed with reporter L.M. Sixel of the Houston Chronicle for a Q&A session on Texas Eminent Domain. He answered legal questions concerning TxDOT, pipeline, and powerline eminent domain cases. He also discussed the landowner...
Luke Ellis, Justin Hodge, and Jacob Merkord won a Wichita County jury trial regarding the reduction in value caused by a 345kV high-voltage electric transmission line easement. The dispute began in December 2011 when Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC sued a Wichita...
Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the 13th Annual Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy (TPPF) Orientation, one of the nation’s top policy conferences held in Austin on January 8, 2015. Luke spoke on a panel called “Protecting Property Rights Amidst the Texas...
By Max B. Baker Star-Telegram (Fort Worth) The Texas Railroad Commission has approved new rules modifying what pipeline operators must do to become common carriers and possibly get the power to condemn land for their projects. Luke Ellis, an Austin attorney, also said...
Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the Hood County Bar Association in Granbury on May 23, 2014 in response to several planned pipeline projects in the area. He discussed the for-profit oil and gas industry and its power to condemn private land. Luke discussed the...