Insights

As part of the Texas Tribune’s ongoing reporting on the border wall project called The Taking, Barron Adler partners Roy Brandys and Nick Laurent were quoted regarding President Trump’s emergency declaration.  The...

On March 4, the Senate State Affairs Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 421 which would reform eminent domain procedures for private condemnors like pipeline companies.  The bill, sponsored by Senator Lois Kolkhorst,...

Barron Adler Partner Roy Brandys was interviewed by the Texas Lawyer for a piece entitled, “As Trump Pursues Wall, South Texas Lawyers Ready for Eminent Domain Battles.”  Mr. Brandys discussed the firm’s long-standing...

The National Butterfly Center, which is in the path of the next phase of the border wall project, recently requested an injunction that would preclude construction of the wall through the Butterfly Center.  Federal courts...

The Texas Observer has published an article discussing the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline, including a summary of legislation that Rep. Zwiener plans to introduce this session as a result of the recent pipeline...

TxDOT has begun construction on an eight mile stretch of US 290 near McDade, east of Austin.  The project will complete the four-lane highway between Elgin and Paige.  The project is expected to be complete in the summer of...

Sen. Lois Kolkhorst and Rep. DeWayne Burns have filed companion bills in the Legislature that would reform the eminent domain system in Texas (Senate Bill 421 and House Bill 991).  Similar bills have been filed in prior...

An article about the border wall and unique legal issues associated with it, written by Barron Adler lawyers Roy Brandys, Nick Laurent, and Blaire Knox, has been published in the American Bar Association Solo, Small Firm...

The Brownwood Bulletin reports that Plains All American Pipeline has offered to make $1 million available for grants to public safety agencies that are within 30 miles of the company’s Permian Basin to Houston pipeline. ...