Sunday, March 11, 2018

March 11

When the Pawnee Nation filed a lawsuit against the Nestle Corporation for sourcing their bottled water from one of the tributaries of the Republican River, to which the Pawnee claimed rights, Nestle, Inc. enlisted the public relations services of NY-based firm, Edelman. Edelman representative Maxwell Kruger quickly issued the following statement to the press, "Nestle is more than a company. It's a family, and the Nestle family name has been injured by this malicious effort to derail a long-standing family tradition of bottling water at the source - a tradition which carries with it a significant dollar value. The Pawnee have no legal basis on which to swoop in and claim this tributary, on which Nestle has maintained a presence for over 36 years. We are prepared to show them, in court, if need be, that that the international Nestle family of companies and subsidiaries have rights, and we aren't afraid to defend those those rights." Six days later, a lobbyist with the Podesta Group, which had been retained by Nestle, met in private with representatives of the Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Reclamation. A Federal judge subsequently threw the Pawnee's case out of court, declaring it frivolous and without merit. 

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