i can't even believe the settlement was allowed with that provision.

Isn't this effectively a corruption of blood situation? The decision of the parent can't carry over for life to their children.

Certainly not once the minors become adults. Of course that all depends on whether it actually goes to court. If they just quietly go about their lives it doesn't matter.

It is the gas company's lawyer who is being an asshole about it.

to issue a gag order on children?

as proxies to engage in further comment--e.g. sending the kids out with signs, signing kids names to LTTE, getting the kids on talk shows, or whatever--and thought this was a way to curtail that.

I think sweeping gag orders are creepy in general (it's one thing to keep private the terms of a settlement, another to preclude discussion of an entire topic), but if it is a common practice I can see a zealous attorney wanting to close all routes around it. I would also very much hope that it would not apply to speech that was solely at the childrens' own motivation...

Like money, it trumps everything. Right.

Poor Hallowiches. Silenced by money -- money offered to alleviate INJUSTICE.

Well, we can talk about fracking. Like the people whose water catches fire.

But HEY 750,000 dollars! Better spend whatever amount was left over after court costs...life is short and I bet theirs is all now a lot shorter.

They got wrung.

And their bullshit corporate laws.

In BG, "frackin'" is frequently used as a euphemism for that other F-word.

this is absolute, complete, totally unenforceable bullshit.

It's still a total outrage that it even happened in the first place, though.