July 24, 2024
Labor unions and energy industry groups are joining Enbridge Energy's push for the full Sixth Circuit to rehear a panel decision that sent a Michigan lawsuit aiming to shut down the company's Line 5 pipeline back to state courts.
July 16, 2024
Enbridge Energy LP has asked the full Sixth Circuit to rehear an appellate panel's decision to send the company's pipeline dispute with Michigan's attorney general back to state court, arguing that the opinion creates a conflict within the circuit over when the removal clock starts running.
June 17, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday remanded a dispute between Michigan's attorney general and Enbridge Energy that looks to shut down dual pipelines that cross the Straits of Mackinac, saying the company failed to timely remove the case to federal court and there are no equitable exceptions to do so.
April 18, 2024
Enbridge Energy has said the U.S. government's recent brief to the Seventh Circuit in separate litigation over its Line 5 pipeline backs its challenge against Michigan over the state's attempts to shutter the project, arguing the federal government has a strong interest in ensuring that trade and diplomatic relations with Canada aren't affected.
March 21, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel questioned how Enbridge Energy LP could move a lawsuit seeking to shut down one of its pipelines to federal court more than two years after it was filed, pressing the company Thursday to justify missing the 30-day cutoff for removals.
January 18, 2024
An environmental policy and law center is backing the Michigan attorney general in her appeal of Enbridge Energy's removal to federal court of a state lawsuit seeking to shut down a pipeline that crosses through the state's water, saying it undermines the role of states to protect their interest in natural resources.
December 11, 2023
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel quoted "Romeo and Juliet" in her bid to shut down a natural gas and oil pipeline that crosses the Great Lakes, telling the Sixth Circuit that Enbridge Energy LP is playing word games to support its late transfer of the lawsuit to federal court.
November 21, 2023
A dispute over an Enbridge Energy pipeline must be heard in federal court because Michigan officials' efforts to shut down the pipeline threaten the United States' relationship with Canada, making the case a national concern, the energy company has told the Sixth Circuit.
September 26, 2023
Tribal nations came out in support of the Michigan attorney general's legal challenge to Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, telling the Sixth Circuit the pipeline threatens waters that are culturally, economically and spiritually significant to nations across the Great Lakes.
September 19, 2023
A legal effort to shut down an Enbridge Inc. pipeline must be heard in state court, Michigan's attorney general said, urging the Sixth Circuit to undo a ruling that blessed Enbridge's transfer of the case to federal court more than two years after it was filed.