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Shell Offshore, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc.
Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc. ↗
3:12-cv-00042-SLGUnited States District of Alaska (D. Alaska)2 entries
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
05/29/2012
Decision
Order issued granting motion to dismiss in part and granting Shell's motion for additional preliminary injunctive relief.
Greenpeace moved to dismiss. The court granted the motion in part, dismissing the public nuisance and tortious interference claims, but declined to dismiss the other causes of action. It also expanded a previously granted restraining order blocking activists from barricading or occupying the company’s ships bound for the Arctic.
02/27/2012
Complaint
Complaint filed.
Shell filed a lawsuit in Alaska federal court seeking to block environmental activists from barricading or occupying its drilling ship bound for the Arctic. The company alleged that Greenpeace members unlawfully boarded its ship in New Zealand and chained themselves to drilling equipment meant to stop the ship from reaching the Chukchi Sea. The company alleged causes for action for, among other things, nuisance, piracy, malicious mischief on the high seas, tortious interference with contractual relations, trespass, false imprisonment, and reckless endangerment.
Shell Offshore, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc. ↗
12-35332United States Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.)3 entries