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Greenpeace says a pipeline company’s lawsuit threatens the organization’s future

Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Greenpeace, seeking nearly $300 million in damages.
Energy Transfer accuses Greenpeace of defamation, vandalism, and harassment during the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline from 2016 to 2017.
Greenpeace denies the allegations and argues that the lawsuit threatens its future and violates its freedom of speech principles.
The trial is seen as a test of First Amendment rights and raises concerns about corporate use of legal actions to silence activism.

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Texas pipeline company's $300 mil. lawsuit against Greenpeace heads to trial in North Dakota

A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry.

16 hours ago·Korea, Republic of

Greenpeace Faces $300 Million Lawsuit That Puts the Longtime Environmental Nonprofit at Risk of Bankruptcy

Greenpeace is being sued by Energy Transfer, a Dallas-based company that is accusing the longtime environmentalist group of having disrupted its business with protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation almost a decade ago. The trial began Monday in North Dakota, and, if successful, the lawsuit could bankrupt the nonprofit. Filed in state court, legal action accuses Greenpeace of an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to E…

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Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a Mandan courtroom on Monday. Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, accuses Greenpeace of using underhanded means to back demonstrations against the pipeline in 2016 and 2017. South-central North Dakota was the center of a roughly seven-month protest against the project. …

1 day ago·North Dakota, United States

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Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace • South Dakota Searchlight

Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate in Bismarck in August 2016. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)MANDAN, N.D. — A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a North Dakota courtroom on Monday. Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, accuses Greenpeace of using underhanded means to back demonstrations against the pipeline in 2016 and…

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Jury selection begins in civil trial between Dakota Access developer and Greenpeace

Energy Transfer says Greenpeace used tactics including defamation, vandalism and harassment in an attempt to tarnish the company’s reputation and sink the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

2 days ago·Fargo, United States

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Commentary: Texans’ free speech threatened

Imagine being the target of a vexatious lawsuit completely without merit in which you ultimately prevail — only to find out that you not only have to pay your attorney’s fees but also the other side’s. That’s the likely outcome if the Texas Legislature passes House Bill 2988 this session. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mano DeAyala, R-Houston, would gut the Texas Citizens Participation Act, leaving it basically toothless. Right now, if Texans speak…

2 days ago·Cherokee County, United States

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Greenpeace says a pipeline company’s lawsuit threatens the organization’s future

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Texas pipeline company's $300 mil. lawsuit against Greenpeace heads to trial in North Dakota

Texas pipeline company's $300 mil. lawsuit against Greenpeace heads to trial in North Dakota

Greenpeace Faces $300 Million Lawsuit That Puts the Longtime Environmental Nonprofit at Risk of Bankruptcy

Greenpeace Faces $300 Million Lawsuit That Puts the Longtime Environmental Nonprofit at Risk of Bankruptcy

Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace

Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace

Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace • South Dakota Searchlight

Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace • South Dakota Searchlight

Jury selection begins in civil trial between Dakota Access developer and Greenpeace

Jury selection begins in civil trial between Dakota Access developer and Greenpeace

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