Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd. and Mike Latta v. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, Llc

How courts have described this case

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• requiring a reasonable probability that a pipeline will serve the public by transporting product for “one or more customers who will either retain ownership of their [product] or sell it to parties other than the carrier”
• “A private enterprise cannot acquire unchallengeable condemnation power [as a common carrier] merely by checking boxes on a one-page form and self-declaring its common-carrier status.”
• “We presume the Legislature is aware of relevant caselaw when it enacts statutes.”
• “The term ‘for the public for hire’ 42 implies that the gas is being carried for another who retains ownership of the gas, and that the pipeline is merely a transportation conduit rather than the point where title is transferred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).