{"id":712,"date":"2012-10-12T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2012-11-04T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:35:05","slug":"breaking-news-on-the-federal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/10\/12\/breaking-news-on-the-federal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news on the federal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s very good news indeed! We&#8217;ve just learned of a new filing in the <a title=\"POLAR lawsuit now a federal case\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/09\/21\/polar-lawsuit-now-a-federal-case\/\">POLAR lawsuit<\/a> that is now in federal district court. Just yesterday, the Michigan Townships Association filed an amicus curiae brief in support of POLAR&#8217;s complaint, arguing that in the MTA&#8217;s view Enbridge is legally required to seek local consent prior to construction.<\/p>\n<p>In our view, this is major; it is in many ways precisely the statement for which we&#8217;ve been waiting a very long time. Among other things, this means that Brandon Township is no longer alone&#8211; they&#8217;re now supported by dozens of townships all across the state.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve obtained the filing from the court records and have begun looking it over. Stay tuned for more commentary and discussion once we&#8217;ve completed our review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s very good news indeed! We&#8217;ve just learned of a new filing in the POLAR lawsuit that is now in federal district court. Just yesterday, the Michigan Townships Association filed an amicus curiae brief in support of POLAR&#8217;s complaint, arguing that in the MTA&#8217;s view Enbridge is legally required to seek local consent prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-polar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}