Minnesota Supreme Court balks at bid to strip reporter protections in DAPL lawsuit

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Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of an energy company’s desire to obtain unpublished information gathered by a news organization.

Energy Transfer LP is suing Greenpeace International over protesters' attempts in 2016 to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, a thousand-mile underground channel built to transport crude oil.

Unicorn Riot, a Minnesota-based news organization, embedded itself with protesters and provided some of the only inside news at the time, including livestreams of police and protesters clashing and news stories documenting the effort. 

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