{"id":73292,"date":"2025-03-06T02:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T01:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=73292"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:31:08","slug":"north-dakota-supreme-court-denies-greenpeace-entities-petition-for-venue-change-in-energy-transfer-slapp-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/press-release\/73292\/north-dakota-supreme-court-denies-greenpeace-entities-petition-for-venue-change-in-energy-transfer-slapp-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Supreme Court denies Greenpeace entities\u2019 petition for venue change in Energy Transfer SLAPP trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bismarck, North Dakota \u2014 The North Dakota Supreme Court today <a href=\"https:\/\/portal-api.ctrack.ndcourts.gov\/courts\/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13\/cms\/case\/2b4aa1ab-cdd2-43fc-af88-33e078bbd827\/docketentrydocuments\/6f97cae5-9628-45df-81f7-9c14d68c8444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied<\/a> a petition by Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US for a change of venue as they defend against the SLAPP case brought by Energy Transfer in Morton County.<br><br>The North Dakota Supreme Court\u2019s denial follows three prior denied motions to the Morton County court for change of venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;The fairness of a trial should be above any questioning. A jury drawn from a community heavily affected by the events Energy Transfer is attempting to blame on the defendants, shouldn\u2019t bear the responsibility of deciding this case. It\u2019s disappointing to learn the Supreme Court denied the motion, but we are confident in our defence and will continue to focus on winning at trial,&#8221; said Daniel Simons, Senior Legal Counsel, Greenpeace International.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWhile we are disappointed with this outcome, we have always believed in the strength of our defence, and will continue to present our case,\u201d said Greenpeace USA Senior Legal Advisor Deepa Padmanabha. &#8220;We trust that the jury will follow the facts and the law, and render a decision in our favor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours),&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org\">pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Join the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Dp3SPelJz3y4f7hdq8NBrR\">Greenpeace SLAPP Trial WhatsApp Group<\/a>&nbsp;for our latest updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Dakota Supreme Court\u2019s denial follows three prior denied motions to the Morton County court for change of venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":73125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"ET SLAPP","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[79,144],"p4-page-type":[98],"class_list":["post-73292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about","tag-about-us","tag-et-slapp","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73292"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73302,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292\/revisions\/73302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73292"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=73292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}