If you look hard enough, you will see how this ruling could be twisted to benefit a private party one day. Having said that, based on your responses, I believe you think I hold an opinion either way on how the case went or should have went, so I will stop responding to this thread. You can only lead the horse to water, you cannot force him to understand the future implications of land use law decisions.
You brought up that this could somehow grant eminent domain powers to utility companies per "power lines and the like" which is already the case.
Not seeing how the public gaining access to public land(in accordance with a law from 1885) which has been blocked by a private party is going to result in a private party being granted exclusive access to public land. This seems to be the total opposite of the latter.
