keystone pipeline goes forward as texas court ditchers

http://www.nationofchange.org/keystone-pipeline-goes-forward-texas-court-ditchers-1356965838

Michael Bishop was ready for his day in court against TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which is under construction in East Texas and approaching his homestead. The only trouble was the court wasn’t ready.

By the time TransCanada’s attorneys and Bishop, the former Marine representing himself, showed up at the Nacogdoches County Court on Dec. 19 to argue Bishop’s claim that TransCanada’s defrauded landowners like himself, which was enough to halt construction of the pipeline’s southern leg, Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz was already having second thoughts about his local court taking on a dispute with such large national, international, and global ramifications.

Judge Sinz had already stopped construction once, having granted Bishop an emergency injunction on Dec. 7. But Sinz then rescinded that order on Dec. 13 after TransCanada’s attorneys asked for a special hearing to which they present additional information.

Apparently, over the weekend Judge Sinz began to wonder if his court of limited jurisdiction actually had the authority to rule on the issues of property and land rights involved in blocking TransCanada from using it as right of way for the pipeline.