( February 26, 2026, 11:07 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a second case involving the dispute between the state of Michigan and the owners of an oil and gas pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, the pipeline owners have filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that it should deny review of a petition filed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because the Sixth Circuit correctly rejected the state’s sovereign immunity claim that it asserted when the pipeline companies sued the state for terminating an easement that is required to operate the pipeline....