Mountain Valley Pipeline Escapes Suit by Virginia Landowners (1)

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC won its bid Tuesday to continue construction of a more-than-300-mile-long natural gas pipeline through Virginia despite a protest from affected property owners.

The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, after remand from the US Supreme Court, affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction a lawsuit brought by landowners whose properties were in the path of the pipeline and were seized by eminent domain.

The court came to the same decision it made before the high court ordered it to reconsider, which was that the Natural Gas Act ...