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Trial begins in $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over North Dakota pipeline protests
The case is tied to protests in 2016 and 2017 of the Dakota Access Pipeline and its controversial Missouri River crossing upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. The estimated five-week trial is now underway.
Dakota Access trial won’t be moved, North Dakota justices rule
The North Dakota Supreme Court last week denied a petition by Greenpeace to move its legal battle with Energy Transfer — developer of the Dakota Access pipeline that cuts through Iowa — out of Morton County in that state.
North Dakota Supreme Court denies petition to move Greenpeace trial to different court
MANDAN, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The North Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition by Greenpeace to move its legal battle with Energy Transfer out of Morton County.
Witness: Most tribal nations at Dakota Access Pipeline protest ‘didn’t know who Greenpeace was’
Nick Tilsen’s deposition was the latest testimony heard by the nine-person jury in the marathon trial between pipeline developer Energy Transfer and Greenpeace
Greenpeace goes to trial in lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests
The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline allege Greenpeace masterminded the raucous protests in 2016 and 2017 against the construction of the pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Greenpeace asks North Dakota Supreme Court to move Dakota Access Pipeline trial to Fargo
Exterior of the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan on Feb. 27, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)MANDAN, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Greenpeace has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to move its Dakota Access Pipeline defamation case out of Morton County,
Greenpeace trial begins in North Dakota in key free speech case
A US oil pipeline operator's lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from Greenpeace for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of violence and defamation begins Monday in a North Dakota court, in a case with broad free speech implications.
Jury selection begins in civil trial brought by Dakota Access Pipeline developer against Greenpeace
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.
Why a jury trial in North Dakota has environmentalists so worried
The environmental group is being sued for $300 million in North Dakota by a pipeline company in a case that has become a ...
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Energy Transfer, Greenpeace outline arguments as $300M trial starts in North Dakota
MANDAN, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – An attorney representing the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline told a jury ...
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Testimony: Greenpeace gave intel, supplies, training to DAPL protests
Greenpeace provided supplies, intel and training to demonstrators who spent months camping near the Dakota Access Pipeline ...
The oil tycoon who could bankrupt Greenpeace
The sleepy town of Mandan, North Dakota, with a population of just 25,000, might seem an unlikely backdrop for a titanic ...
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Port: Keep the Greenpeace trial in Morton County
The good people of Morton County had to live through the often violent and unlawful Dakota Access Pipeline protests. They ...
Political pressure led to permit delays for Dakota Access Pipeline, former exec testifies
A former Energy Transfer executive on Tuesday blamed political pressure for the federal government’s decision to delay a key ...