Judge urges common sense in border fence land disputes
BROWNSVILLE, Texas: "A federal judge urged the government Friday to use common sense and "good neighborness" in working out access to 12 pieces of private property in Cameron County that it says it needs to study land for the border fence.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen did not rule Friday, but an order was expected early next week granting the government access but with some guidelines.
Hanen's handling was markedly different from the way U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludlum handled an almost identical case in Eagle Pass. In that case, the government filed its lawsuit and Ludlum ordered the city to surrender 233 acres before it could muster a response."
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN for the Associate Press.