PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey

PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 28, 2021 Decided June 29, 2021
Full case name	PennEast Pipeline Co., LLC v. New Jersey, et al.
Docket no.	19-1039
Citations	594 U.S. ___ (more) 141 S. Ct. 2244, 210 L. Ed. 2d 624
Holding
Section 717f(h) of the Natural Gas Act of 1938 authorizes FERC certificate holders to condemn all necessary rights-of-way, whether owned by private parties or States.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Roberts, joined by Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh
Dissent	Gorsuch, joined by Thomas
Dissent	Barrett, joined by Thomas, Kagan, Gorsuch
Laws applied
Natural Gas Act of 1938

PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey, 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the sovereign immunity of states to delegated powers of eminent domain granted to private companies from federal agencies, in the specific case, acquiring property for the right-of-way to build a natural gas pipeline. The Court, in a 5–4 decision issued in June 2021, ruled that states, by nature of ratifying the Constitution, gave up their ability to exercise sovereign immunity from the federal government or from those parties whom they have delegated that authority.