The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Texas Central has the authority to use eminent domain to seize land to build a long-delayed $30B high-speed rail link between Dallas and Houston.
The Lone Star State's highest court sided with the company in a 5-3 decision in a case filed in 2019 by James Miles, a Leon County resident whose property Texas Central attempted to survey.
The plaintiff's case argued that eminent domain laws used to clear the way for railroads in Texas for more than a century did not envision bullet trains like the high-speed line Texas Central wants to build, and therefore the firm could not be classified as a railroad company.
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