“The problems included a jury that was patently biased in favor of Energy Transfer, with many members working in the fossil fuel industry; a judge who lacked the requisite experience and legal knowledge to rule properly on the complex First Amendment and other evidentiary issues at the center of the case; and incendiary and prejudicial statements by lawyers for Energy Transfer that tried to criminalize Greenpeace and by extension the entire climate movement by attacking constitutionally-protected advocacy.”
“In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace that just ended in the courts of North Dakota. This is one of the most important cases in American history.”
Baloney. Greenpeace got what it deserved. I loved the fact that the punitive damages were doubled by the jury. To see them wreak violence and destruction and then whine about the freedom of protest being lost is hysterical. The jury of those harmed by their actions saw through everything and gave them what they deserved.
“The problems included a jury that was patently biased in favor of Energy Transfer, with many members working in the fossil fuel industry; a judge who lacked the requisite experience and legal knowledge to rule properly on the complex First Amendment and other evidentiary issues at the center of the case; and incendiary and prejudicial statements by lawyers for Energy Transfer that tried to criminalize Greenpeace and by extension the entire climate movement by attacking constitutionally-protected advocacy.”
“In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace that just ended in the courts of North Dakota. This is one of the most important cases in American history.”
https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial...
Baloney. Greenpeace got what it deserved. I loved the fact that the punitive damages were doubled by the jury. To see them wreak violence and destruction and then whine about the freedom of protest being lost is hysterical. The jury of those harmed by their actions saw through everything and gave them what they deserved.