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ENBRIDGE PIPELINES v. AVINGER TIMBER

No. 10-0950.

386 S.W.3d 256 (2012)

ENBRIDGE PIPELINES (EAST TEXAS) L.P., Petitioner, v. AVINGER TIMBER, LLC, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 31, 2012.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Wayne Doerries , Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., Lauren Elizabeth Tanner , Stephen G. Tipps , Baker & Botts, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Thomas E. Sheffield , Attorney at Law, Kemah, TX, Thomas H. Buchanan , Flowers Davis PLLC, Tyler, TX, Thomas R. Phillips , Baker Botts L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Enbridge Pipeline (East Texas) L.P.

Charles R. `Skip' Watson Jr. , Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., Christopher S. Johns , Dawson & Sodd LLP, Mike A. Hatchell , Locke Lord LLP, Austin, TX, Clay Beard , Glenn Sodd , Jody Sodd McSpadden , William Jason Sodd , Dawson, Sodd, Ellis & Hodge, LLP, Corsicana, TX, John R. Mercy , Mercy Carter Tidwell LLP, Texarkana, TX, for Avinger Timber LLC.

Thomas J. Forestier , Winstead PC, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission Company, LLC.

Lewis L. Isaacks , Gay McCall Isaacks Gordon & Roberts, P.C., Piano, TX, for Amicus Curiae Crosstex Energy Services, L.P.

James E. Mann , Patrick Joseph Pearsall , Duggins Wren Mann & Romero LLP, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae El Paso Electric Company.

Thomas A. Zabel , Zabel Freeman Houston Attorneys, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Enterprise Products Partners, L.P.

Alan B. Daughtry , Attorney-at-Law, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Gas Processors Association.

Kurt Howard Kuhn , Kurt Kuhn, PLLC, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

Chance Dean Weldon , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.

Douglas G. Caroom , Emily Willms Rogers , Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Farm Bureau.

William Gerow Christian , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, PC, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Land and Mineral Owners Assoc'n.

Jeff Avant , Avant & Mitchell, L.P., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Oil & Gas Assoc'n.

Charles B. McFarland , Joyce McFarland & McFarland LLP, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Pipeline Association and Texas Municipal League.

Jeffery Frank Nadalo , Transcanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P., Stephen K. Carroll , Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Transcanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P.

Justice LEHRMANN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, and Justice GUZMAN joined.

This case involves a dispute over the fair market value of acreage on which a gas processing facility is located. We must decide whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting an expert's testimony that allegedly violated the value-to-the-taker rule, which prohibits measuring land's value by...

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