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Iowa judge sets hearing on CO2 pipeline company’s injunction request | State and Regional News
SIOUX CITY – Carbon dioxide pipeline developers will have a chance to argue next week for a judge’s order to prevent two Woodbury County landowners from interfering with attempts to enter their land to survey the proposed pipeline route. District Judge Roger Sailer on Wednesday scheduled a hearing for Sept. 30 to hear Navigator Heartland Greenway’s request for an injunction against Moville, Iowa, property owners William and Vicki Hulse, who have twice denied the company’s agents access to their land that lies in the pipeline’s proposed route. Navigator sued the Hulses last month and is seeking a ruling that will keep them from denying access to their land. The Hulses…
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Oregon ban on real estate ‘love letters’ blocked by preliminary injunction
A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction that prohibits Oregon from enforcing a law against “love letters” to home sellers. In his court order, District Judge Marco A. Hernández says Oregon’s House Bill 2550 “likely violates” the First Amendment rights of real estate agents. “It is not in the public interest to enforce a law that is likely unconstitutional, even one aimed at the laudable goal of reducing unlawful discrimination in housing,” his legal opinion reads. The 2021 law was the first of its kind in the nation. It prohibited buyers from providing “love letters” and personal photographs to sellers as a way to improve their chances of…