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Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Enbridge missed the deadline to remove the case, keeping Michigan’s challenge to the Line 5 easement in state court.
- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the lawsuit seeking to shut down Line 5 must remain in Michigan state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Calgary-based energy company Enbridge waited too long to attempt a jurisdictional change.
- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued in 2019 to void the easement allowing Enbridge to operate a 4.5-mile pipeline section beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Nessel, a Democrat, previously won a restraining order from Ingham County Judge James Jamo.
- A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals returned the case to Jamo in June 2024, finding Enbridge missed a 30-day deadline to shift jurisdictions. The pipeline has moved crude oil and natural gas liquids between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, since 1953.
- Separately, the pipeline faces a legal dispute in Wisconsin where a federal judge gave Enbridge three years to shut down sections crossing the Bad River Band of Lake Superior reservation. The company has appealed this shutdown order to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Enbridge seeks to encase the pipeline section beneath the straits in a protective tunnel. While the Michigan Public Service Commission granted permits in 2023, the company still requires approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with AG Nessel in Line 5 case
WASHINGTON, DC (WKZO AM/FM) – The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her argument against Canadian company Enbridge Energy. Nessel contends Enbridge waited too long to ask a judge to move a lawsuit over their twin oil and natural gas pipelines on the bed of the Straits of Mackinac to federal court from state court. Justices heard oral arguments less than two months ago in the case and th…
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously backs Michigan AG Nessel, keeps Line 5 case in state court
The U.S. Supreme Court's front steps in Washington, D.C. July 19, 2022. | Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance.The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday handed Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel a victory, offering a unanimous decision that laid to rest a yearslong debate over whether her case to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline should be heard in state or federal court. In an 14-page opinion penned by Justice Sonia Sotomayo…
Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down Line 5
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state's lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. The post Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down Line 5 appeared first on WPR.
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