Overview
- The justices directed Judge James Gion to enjoin Greenpeace International’s Amsterdam case Thursday, calling it a collateral attack on the Morton County jury’s verdict.
- Justice Jerod Tufte wrote that asking a Dutch court to label Energy Transfer’s suit “manifestly unfounded and abusive” would clash with jury findings on unlawful conduct, losses, and malice.
- Chief Justice Lisa Fair McEvers dissented, saying there was no clear error in Gion’s earlier denial and questioning whether a Dutch ruling would affect the U.S. judgment.
- Energy Transfer’s win stands as a $345 million judgment after a jury first awarded $667 million, and the Greenpeace defendants have asked for a new trial.
- Greenpeace filed the Dutch case in 2025 under a new EU anti-SLAPP law that aims to protect protest speech, and an Amsterdam court held a mid-April hearing on Energy Transfer’s bid to dismiss the suit.