{"id":36691,"date":"2025-11-18T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36691"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:23:21","slug":"greenpeace-faces-an-unusual-new-legal-attack-from-a-pipeline-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36691","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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The yearslong court battle over a controversial pipeline \u2014 a fight so aggressive, it\u2019s threatening to bankrupt Greenpeace USA \u2014 has taken a strange legal twist.<\/p>\n

Energy Transfer, the company that won a nearly $670 million judgment against Greenpeace earlier this year over protests against its Dakota Access Pipeline, is mounting a full-court press with its latest strategy. The pipeline company and its allies are exhorting North Dakota\u2019s Supreme Court to block a countersuit from an international branch of Greenpeace in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

In other words, Energy Transfer is asking judges in North Dakota to stop a lawsuit<\/a> filed under the laws of a different country. The details of its efforts at the state\u2019s Supreme Court haven\u2019t been previously reported.<\/p>\n

The strategy is unusual, but not unheard-of.<\/p>\n

George A. Bermann, a professor at Columbia Law School and expert on transnational litigation, said that courts generally issue international injunctions like this only sparingly because they are seen as interfering with foreign courts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If the North Dakota court did issue one, enforcing it would be another matter, he said, because of the messy questions about jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace International, were it to defy such an order, might face a contempt ruling by a North Dakota court. But if Greenpeace International has no presence in North Dakota, it could be difficult for the court to collect, he said.<\/p>\n

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The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.The yearslong court battle over a controversial pipeline \u2014 a fight so aggressive, it\u2019s threatening to bankrupt Greenpeace USA \u2014 has taken a strange legal twist.Energy Transfer, the company that won a nearly $670 million judgment against Greenpeace earlier this year over protests against its Dakota Access Pipeline, is mounting a full-court press with its latest strategy. The pipeline company and its allies are exhorting North Dakota\u2019s Supreme Court to block a countersuit from an international branch of Greenpeace in the Netherlands.In other words, Energy Transfer is asking judges in North Dakota to stop a lawsuit filed under the laws of a different country. The details of its efforts at the state\u2019s Supreme Court haven\u2019t been previously reported.The strategy is unusual, but not unheard-of.George A. Bermann, a professor at Columbia Law School and expert on transnational litigation, said that courts generally issue international injunctions like this only sparingly because they are seen as interfering with foreign courts.If the North Dakota court did issue one, enforcing it would be another matter, he said, because of the messy questions about jurisdiction.Greenpeace International, were it to defy such an order, might face a contempt ruling by a North Dakota court. But if Greenpeace International has no presence in North Dakota, it could be difficult for the court to collect, he said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36693,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36694,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36691\/revisions\/36694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}