{"id":2959,"date":"2018-03-30T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b0463076bf795653d3b10ed1fe2a2c60"},"modified":"2018-03-30T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:05:51","slug":"judge-demands-explanation-in-dakota-access-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/judge-demands-explanation-in-dakota-access-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge demands explanation in Dakota Access lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. &#8212; A federal judge has set a Monday deadline for environmental group Earth First to explain what he says appears to be discrepancies in its argument that it can&#8217;t be sued for opposing the Dakota Access oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners last August sued Earth First, Greenpeace and BankTrack for up to $1 billion, alleging the groups worked to undermine the $3.8 billion project.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for constitutional Rights maintains Earth First is an unstructured social movement or philosophy, similar to Black Lives Matter, and thus that can&#8217;t be sued.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson says Earth First has been a listed plaintiff in three other federal lawsuits. He says that if Earth First can sue, it seems to him that it&#8217;s also subject to being sued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. &mdash; A federal judge has set a Monday deadline for environmental group Earth First to explain what he says appears to be discrepancies in its argument that it can&rsquo;t be sued for opposing the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners last August sued Earth First, Greenpeace and BankTrack for up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}