41 Cases found
Durand v. Echols
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Ga.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/15/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that a Georgia Public Service Commissioner violated an individual's free speech rights by blocking her criticism of the Commissioner's positions on energy issues on Twitter and Facebook.
Stossel v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Motions to dismiss and motions to strike the complaint pursuant to California's anti-SLAPP statute granted without leave to amend. [ 10/11/2022 ]
Description: Defamation lawsuit against Facebook and fact-checkers for alleged mischaracterizations of plaintiff's climate change videos.
DeIuliis v. Engel
Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/27/2021 ]
Description: Defamation lawsuit brought by energy executive against writers and media company for assigning blame for climate change to him and other executives.
Landman v. Scott
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Joint motion for order of dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 08/30/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit filed by a Colorado resident against a state senator who blocked her on social media after she criticized his climate change views.
Spoon v. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. La.
Status: Motion for summary judgment filed by HUB Enterprises, Inc. [ 07/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit by pipeline protesters against pipeline company, law enforcement officers, and a private security company for violation of federal and state rights.
Roemer v. Williams
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Dismissal affirmed. [ 11/02/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel a community college president to require distribution of plaintiff's position paper referring to political movements to reduce fossil fuel use as "malicious hoax."
State v. Butler
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Or. Cir. Ct.
Status: Mistrial declared. [ 02/27/2020 ]
Description: Criminal case against against climate activists charged with criminal trespass in connection with their protest that involved laying dirt and straw over railroad tracks used by an energy company.
State v. Yildirim
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Minn. Dist. Ct.
Status: Defendants found guilty of aiding and abetting fourth degree criminal damage to property. [ 07/08/2021 ]
Description: Prosecution of "valve turner" activists who entered an Enbridge pipeline valve site and turned valves on a pipeline.
Energy Transfer LP v. Greenpeace International
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.D.
Status: Notice of removal filed. [ 03/18/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit by the developers of the Dakota Access Pipeline seeking damages from organizations and individuals who protested the pipeline.
Ochs v. District of Columbia
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C.
Status: Convictions affirmed. [ 09/02/2021 ]
Description: Prosecution of two climate change protestors for crowding, obstructing, or incommoding a street after being warned to cease.
Dakota Rural Action v. Noem
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.D.
Status: Action dismissed with prejudice pursuant to stipulated settlement agreement. [ 10/29/2019 ]
Description: Challenge by environmental and indigenous groups and activists to South Dakota's "Riot Boosting Act."
White Hat v. Landry
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. La.
Status: Memorandum of law filed by plaintiffs in support of summary judgment motion. [ 04/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging 2018 amendments to a Louisiana law that prohibits unauthorized entry of critical infrastructure by expanding the definition of critical infrastructure to include 125,000 miles of pipelines.
Willmeng v. City of Thornton
Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation filed. [ 10/20/2018 ]
Description: First Amendment lawsuit brought by two Colorado residents against Colorado city and its mayor pro tem for blocking their comments about hydraulic fracturing.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) v. Macomb Community College
Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Mich.
Status: Order of dismissal entered. [ 11/13/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by students against community college alleging that the college violated the students' free speech and equal protection rights by barring them from engaging in expressive activity to promote fossil fuels without prior approval.
State v. Zepeda
Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Ct. App.
Status: Convictions upheld. [ 11/16/2020 ]
Description: Prosecution of climate activist who entered a pipeline facility and attempted to shut off pipeline.
Marshall County Coal Co. v. Oliver
Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: W. Va.
Status: Appeal of dismissal withdrawn. [ 11/10/2019 ]
Description: Defamation action brought by coal companies and coal executive for statements made on the television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. v. Greenpeace International
Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.D.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted and motion for extension of time to serve denied. [ 02/14/2019 ]
Description: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) action by Dakota Action Pipeline developers against Greenpeace and other organizations.
State v. Foster
Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Dist. Ct.
Status: Defendants sentenced. [ 02/06/2018 ]
Description: Criminal cases against climate protesters who participated in pipeline protests.
State v. Higgins
Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: Mont.
Status: Denial of defendant's request to assert common law necessity defense affirmed. [ 03/03/2020 ]
Description: Criminal prosecution of environmental activist for participating in "valve-turning" protest in 2016 in which protesters shut down pipelines.