US supreme court sides with Michigan in its fight to shut down ageing pipeline

The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a section of the Line 5 energy pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel

The supreme court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an ageing pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court.