He has retired from his law practice, but is highly regarded nationally for his work for Rueben Snake on Religious Freedom. James and Krista Botsford have a farm which they inherited from their ancestors, and they wish to keep the land. They will not allow Enbridge to build a pipeline full of dangerous, volatile Bakken oil on their land. Enbridge, operating as "the North Dakota Pipeline Company" has been declared a public utility in North Dakota, and as such has been given rights to eminent domain. However, James and Krista and their attorneys do not believe that Enbridge should be declared a public utility, and do not wish to have the company on the family land.