Town of Davis v. West Virginia Power & Transmission Co.

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• holding removal of eminent domain action was proper under § 1442(a)(2) because “federal regulations, whose object—the reservation to the United States of certain interests in property purchased through federal grants—certainly stands to be frustrated by this action”
• finding the second prong met when the state sought to Use its eminent domain powers to obtain land that the federal government had a direct interest in and which was governed by regulations requiring federal permission before the land could be disposed of

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).