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.

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.

The environmental group is being sued for $300 million in North Dakota by a pipeline company in a case that has become a flash point in the debate over free speech.

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.

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

A Texas-based company claims the environmental advocacy group tried to delay construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline with 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.

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, arguing the jury is incapable of rendering a fair verdict. The request is the culmination ...

MANDAN, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Greenpeace provided supplies, intel and training to demonstrators who spent months camping near the Dakota Access Pipeline river crossing in south central North Dakota, employees said in video testimony played to a ...

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.

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.

BISMARCK — Greenpeace has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to move its Dakota Access Pipeline defamation case out of Morton County, arguing the jury is incapable of rendering a fair verdict.