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state Supreme Court. In it, several Nebraska landowners along TransCanada's proposed pipeline route claim the law establishing the review process is unconstitutional because it doesn't allow for judicial review and doesn't spell out what criteria should be considered when a proposed pipeline is being evaluated.
• The Nebraska Attorney General's office declined to comment on the lawsuit Wednesday because it had not received a copy of it.
• The lawsuit also objects to putting the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality in charge of reviewing the pipeline project instead of the state's Public Service Commission, an independently elected group that regulates utilities.
• The landowners who filed the lawsuit say they're concerned about the provisions of the law that could allow a pipeline company to use eminent domain to obtain land

for a project.
• "I believe very strongly in our rights as Nebraska citizens. All of us take it extremely personally when we are threatened with eminent domain," landowner Suz Luebbe said in a statement.
• The lawsuit also argues that the bill is unconstitutional special legislation because it can only be applied to TransCanada's Keystone XL project.
• TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline is designed to carry oil from Canada

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