The North Dakota jury's decision against Greenpeace, mandating a $660 million payment for allegedly defaming Energy Transfer regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline, poses dire threats to the group and broader environmental activism. Attorney Martin Garbus, who monitored the trial, described it as fundamentally unfair, with numerous due process violations. He implies that the ruling exemplifies a corporate attack on free speech, particularly during a time when such rights are increasingly under threat from political figures. This case will likely have lasting implications for civil society and media coverage of environmental issues.
In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one that just ended in the courts of North Dakota.
This was an illegitimate, corporate-funded SLAPP harassment case...that tried to criminalize Greenpeace and by extension the entire climate movement.
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