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  • Iowa law pertaining to Clay County pipeline survey is unconstitutional, judge rules

    05/07/2023 10:31:23 AM PDT · by CFW · 9 replies
    Nonpareilonline ^ | 5/4/23 | Nick Hytrek
    SPENCER, Iowa — Iowa landowners opposed to proposed liquid carbon dioxide pipelines crossing their property won a legal victory Wednesday, when a judge ruled a state law giving surveyors the right of entry to private property is unconstitutional. Ruling in a Clay County case, District Judge John Sandy said the law violated Iowa's constitution because it does not provide for just compensation for certain damages to landowners for their loss of the right to deny entry onto their land. "The court can find no other reasonable interpretation in which Iowa Code (section) 479B.15 passes 'constitutional muster,'" Sandy said in his...