Participants and activists appear outside United States District Court for the Northern District of California for a hearing on the controversial racketeering case filed by logging company Resolute Forest Products to silence forest defenders and environmental organizations Greenpeace and Stand.earth. The defendants and other stakeholders had drawn attention to the company's unsustainable practices in the Canadian boreal forest.

"The decision on this landmark case will have enormous implications for free speech as we know it. Resolute was the first company to target advocacy using the devious playbook developed by Trump's go-to law firm, Kasowitz Benson Torres -- but others like the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline are already rushing to follow. The abuse of our legal system by corporate bullies aiming to silence free speech on legitimate issues of public concern is growing and it must be stopped in its tracks, said Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace, Inc. and Greenpeace Fund, Inc.