Forestry Companies Appeal Dismissal Of Greenpeace Defamation Suit To 9th Circuit

Mealey's (June 5, 2023, 8:56 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Several corporate entities in the forest products industry have appealed to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after a federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of Greenpeace International and its affiliates on the entities’ claims that Greenpeace violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by making defamatory statements about their logging practices, which allegedly caused them to lose 100 million Canadian dollars in business....