Legal Opinion
Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, Llc v. Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided January 6, 2017No. 15-0225PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Willett, Justice Guzman, Justice Lehrmann, Justice Boyd, Justice Devine, and Justice Brown joined.
We must decide whether Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC (Denbury Green) is a common carrier pursuant to the Texas Natural Resources Code and the test we set out in Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd. v. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC (Texas Rice I), 363 S.W.3d 192, 202 (Tex. 2012); Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 111.019(a). Because Denbury Green’s summary judgment evidence conclusively established a reasonable probability that, at some point after construction, the carbon…
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