The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that Twin Cities nonprofit media collective Unicorn Riot won’t need to comply with an order requiring it to submit newsgathering materials for in camera review in a lawsuit filed by Energy Transfer, the Dallas company responsible for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

Energy Transfer had sued the environmentalist group Greenpeace International and other entities in state court in North Dakota in 2019, alleging that it had engaged in a civil conspiracy to stop construction of the DAPL, a 1,172-mile-long oil pipeline running from North Dakota to Illinois.

The allegations arose mainly from protests that took place between July and November 2016, as the DAPL neared completion. According to Energy Transfer, thousands of protesters gathered at the DAPL construction site near Lake Oahe in North Dakota and locked themselves to construction equipment, set up roadblocks, threatened law enforcement and DAPL personnel and burned vehicles, shutting down construction.