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Valve Turner Appeals Court Refusal to Allow the Climate Necessity Defense

by Communications | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog

November 9, 2017 Mount Vernon, WA — An appeal was filed today in the Washington Court of Appeals challenging a Superior Court ruling that denied climate activists the ability to present a necessity defense to a jury. Ken Ward, a climate activist from Corbett, Oregon,...

Update from North Dakota Climate Trial

by Lauren Regan | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog

Greetings from Cavalier, North Dakota where we are currently defending the North Dakota Valve Turners, Michael Foster and Sam Jessup. It’s day 3 of trial today. We spent a day and a half picking a jury in this rural, conservative farming community on the outskirts...

Pipeline Protester Trial Ends With Hung Jury In Victory For Climate Movement

by Lauren Regan | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog

Mount Vernon, WA — In a victory for the climate movement, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Ken Ward, a climate activist from Corbett, Oregon, who had been charged with sabotage and burglary after an October 2016 protest in which he and four...

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Valve Turner Appeals Court Refusal to Allow the Climate Necessity Defense

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Pipeline Protester Trial Ends With Hung Jury In Victory For Climate Movement

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