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College Station has been a hub for growth in recent years, and this growth has triggered the development of several large-scale infrastructure projects that will require the use of eminent-domain to reach fruition. In an effort to help educate local Read More …

Luke Ellis, Justin Hodge, and Jacob Merkord won a Wichita County jury trial regarding the reduction in value caused by a 345kV high-voltage electric transmission line easement. The dispute began in December 2011 when Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC sued Read More …

[Ellis] has been fighting for landowners who have had their property taken by the government since 2009. Ellis told listeners that for years before Kelo, attorneys like himself labored in relative obscurity because eminent domain wasn’t on the radar of Read More …

Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the 13th Annual Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy (TPPF) Orientation, one of the nation’s top policy conferences held in Austin on January 8, 2015. Luke spoke on a panel called “Protecting Property Rights Read More …

Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the Hill Country Alliance Workshop in Fredericksburg, Texas on September 6, 2014. The Workshop was planned for all potentially impacted landowners by the proposed substation and transmission line planned for the Blumenthal area, Read More …

Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the Hidalgo County Bar Association in McAllen on July 2, 2014 in response to several large eminent domain/condemnation projects in the area including Electric Transmission Texas, LLC’s proposed North-Edinburg to Loma Alta transmission Read More …

Luke Ellis was invited to speak at the Hood County Bar Association in Granbury on May 23, 2014 in response to several planned pipeline projects in the area. He discussed the for-profit oil and gas industry and its power to Read More …

JMEH partners Luke Ellis and Justin Hodge represented a landowner in a jury trial over the disputed value of a pipeline easement. The Plaintiff pipeline company had offered $80,000. After a week-long trial, the jury returned a verdict of $1.6 Read More …