Who Got The Work

Norfolk Southern, a Virginia-based rail transportation and logistics company, has tapped attorneys Matthew Hammer and Ray Groble of Mohan Groble Scolaro to defend a pending lawsuit. The complaint, filed Oct. 9 in Illinois Southern District Court by Sorling Northrup on behalf of Enable Mississippi River Transmission, seeks to acquire the necessary easements through the defendants' properties to operate and maintain a natural gas pipeline. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Gilbert C. Sison, is 3:23-cv-03317, Enable Mississippi River Transmission v. Leskera Family Farm Revocable Trust.

Transportation & Logistics

November 23, 2023, 8:35 AM

Plaintiffs

• Enable Mississippi River Transmission

Plaintiffs

• Sorling Northrup

defendants

• Norfolk Southern Railway Company
• City of Edwardsville
• Gateway Commerce Center Development Company, Inc.
• Heartlands Conservancy, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation
• Leskera Family Farm Revocable Trust
• Metro East Sanitary District
• Unknown Owners

defendant counsels

• Leskera Law Firm
• Thompson Coburn
• Hinshaw & Culbertson
• Ifmk Law, Ltd.
• Mohan Groble Scolaro, P.C.

nature of claim: 210/related to a government taking of private property