Mining company drops claim Pennings illegally accessed secret information in latest shift of delay-ridden three-year case
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The mining firm Bravus, formerly Adani, will narrow its lawsuit against an anti-mining activist, dropping its claim that Ben Pennings illegally accessed secret information as part of a long-running lawsuit.
The company has spent three years suing the longtime campaigner after Pennings set up a website asking people to “dob in a contractor” that was working on the mine.
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