Attorneys for Energy Transfer Partners faced tough questions from groups representing landowners opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline at a pre-trial hearing on Nov. 16.

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Atchafalaya Basinkeepers sued Energy Transfer Partners over the company's eminent domain claims for the pipeline project. The groups allege Energy Transfer Partners violated constitutional law when the company excavated and built on a piece of land spanning 38 acres without receiving the consent from all the landowners. ...

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