US EditionSupreme 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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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan is celebrating the long-awaited landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to return the Line 5 pipeline lawsuit to the Michigan state court where it has always belonged. This unanimous decision, led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rejected Enbridge's argument to transfer the case to the State Court. The post Victory for Michigan: U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of the Great Lakes appeared first on Latino D…
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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Supreme Court Sides With Nessel Over Enbridge, Moving Line 5 Lawsuit Back to Michigan
Photo: Jasper Colt ~ USA TODAY NETWORK MICHIGAN ~ The U.S. Supreme Court laid down a decision that sided with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in a lawsuit against Enbridge Energy regarding the aging Line 5 pipeline, moving the case back to state court. The unanimous decision found that Enbridge waited too long to move its legal dispute with Nessel’s lawsuit aiming to shut down the pipeline to federal courts, with the company missing a pre…
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