Casey Pipes, managing partner at the Helmsing Leach law firm in Mobile, AL, joins the show to discuss the legislated expansion of existing utility easements to allow access by private broadband companies to install data cables. We discuss the motivation for and constitutional issues of these statutes, as well as implications for property owners. An interesting subtopic is how these issues affect railroads, and what these types of statutes could mean for private entities in the path of broadband expansion.