It goes well beyond that though. I always like to tell the story of Steven Donziger to show just how corrupt this system is.
Ecuador of course has less regulation than the US and oil company went down there and made a total mess. Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, went down there and helped the people and the governemnt sue Chevron and won a $9.5 billion judgement in 2011 to clean this up.
Chevron didn't like this, withdrew their assets from Ecuador and went back to the US and sued Donziger in federal court. The judgement was deemed to be fraudulent (based pretty much on a video tape where Donziger and a minister were at the same event years earlier).
But it didn't end there. Donziger was disbarred for this. Chevron made a complaint to the Department of Justice to criminally prosecute Donziger. The DoJ declined.
But it didn't end there. The federal judge appointed a private law firm that served Chevron to criminally prosecute Donziger for not turning over a computer and other work products that were absolutely covered by attorney-client privilege. This is a little-known and little-used law for private prosecution.
Donziger was placed on house arrest with an $800,000 bail for years for contempt of court.
Donziger claims Chevron has spent in excess of $2 billion in legal fees on all this.
Don't doubt for a second that the courts don't work directly for the interests of corporations and capital owners. In fact, this is about the best way to determine how the Supreme Court will rule on key matters: what benefits the wealthy. It's not strictly true. There are exceptions but it's amazing how often it's correct.
The courts have now been packed with Christian Nationalists who will absolutely weaponize the bench in future years against climate activists and probably get them declared terrorist organizations. That's just the reality we live in now.