Energy Transfer LP v. Gion

Energy Transfer petitioned the North Dakota Supreme Court to issue a writ to protect the company from "unnecessary and harassing discovery." Energy Transfer said the discovery sought by Greenpeace and allowed by the district court included a deposition of Energy Transfer's former CEO Kelcy Warren and "a massive and ill-defined set of pipeline-safety documents." Energy Transfer described Warren as "a classic apex witness" without "any unique and otherwise unobtainable knowledge, a basic requirement for an apex deposition." Regarding pipeline-safety documents, Energy Transfer said it had withdrawn "all defamation claims predicated on Greenpeace's water- and climate-related statements," making the documents "patently irrelevant to any pending claim."