US EditionGreenpeace seeks new trial, claiming jury pool biased in case over Dakota Access Pipeline
The environmental group says jury instructions, evidence and a biased pool tainted the case after a $345 million award was entered against it.
- Greenpeace has requested a new trial in the Dakota Access Pipeline case, challenging the $345 million judgment entered by Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion.
- A Morton County jury initially directed Greenpeace to pay Energy Transfer about $667 million during a three-week trial, finding the group at fault for inciting illegal acts during anti-pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017.
- Greenpeace attorneys contend the jury pool was biased and cited anti-pipeline mailers circulated to Mandan and Bismarck residents before trial. The group also alleges jurors received unfair instructions.
- Judge Gion ruled Tuesday that Greenpeace will not have to pay the $345 million judgment for at least a couple of months, though the organization could face a bond of up to $25 million.
- Should the request for a new trial be denied, Greenpeace plans to appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court; Greenpeace International has filed a separate lawsuit in the Netherlands accusing Energy Transfer of weaponizing the U.S. legal system.
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Greenpeace seeks new trial, claiming jury pool biased in case over Dakota Access Pipeline
BISMARCK — Greenpeace has asked for a second trial after a judge entered a $345 million judgment against the organization in a landmark case brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The case “threatens to result in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in North Dakota’s history,” attorneys for the environmental group wrote in a brief filed last week. After a three-week trial roughly a year ago, a Morton County jury directed G…
Greenpeace, more than 50 years old and well-known, is not ageing very well. Its membership is declining, its membership is also declining, and its credibility will continue. Will it survive? It is a first: in the United States, a judge of North Dakota has condemned Greenpeace International to pay $345 million to Energy Transfer, a petrogazier infrastructure company. An amount that the NGO cannot afford to pay, at the risk of having to get the ke…
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