Posted on 02/07/2016 10:24:39 AM PST by Nachum
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction stopping the distribution of surreptitious videos taken by anti-abortion activists who alleged Planned Parenthood staff discussed the illegal sale of aborted fetal tissue. The National Abortion Federation (NAF), a nonprofit representing abortion providers, accused the Center for Medical Progress and its founder, David Daleiden, in a lawsuit last year of illegally infiltrating and recording its private meetings. San Francisco federal judge William Orrick last year issued a temporary order prohibiting the distribution of the videos, which he extended on Friday until the litigation is over. Orrick said he
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The horse is out of the barn.
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alleged
Seriously?
We saw them doing just that.
What a pudding head judge.
Counter suit coming.
Another Obama appointee.
Liberal/Fascist judicial system at work
Hillary supporter!!!
Well that’s one way to solve the problem. Silence the whistleblowers.
The truth will prevail. Abortion is murder. GOD will have the final say about abortion in America. I’m thankful I don’t live in California.
Actually I’m very thankful I live in California. I live in a rural conservative part of California far away from San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Berkeley, and all the other bastions of Liberal dementia.
Today my wife, and myself are enjoying 82 deg. fah. temperature with slight breezes, and are puttering around in the yard trimming roses, and generally enjoying ourselves, our home, and typical California weather.
It’s a damned shame San Francisco isn’t a part of the liberal East Coast States most of the anus orifices that ruined this State came from over many years, but it is so idiots blame all of California for their actions.
As a rule of thumb, if you ever have controversial media, be sure to at least have a trusted friend out of the US to have a copy. Probably more than one person. So if you are slapped with this injunction, you can just shrug and tell the judge that many copies were distributed “to persons unknown” before the injunction, so you no longer have control over them.
“But we will obey your injunction, though it is moot.”
Have they gone after 60 Minutes, 20/20 and Dateline NBC yet?
Mike Wallace made a Career out of taping Criminals admitting their Crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Orrick_III
San Francisco federal judge William H. Orrick
According to the Public Citizen, a non-profit, consumer rights advocacy group, William H. Orrick III, who was employed by Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, raised at least $200,000 for Barack Obama and donated $30,800 to committees supporting him.[9]
On June 11, 2012, President Obama nominated Orrick to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to the seat vacated by Judge Charles R. Breyer, who took senior status on December 31, 2011.[4] The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on July 11, 2012, and reported it to the floor on August 2, 2012.[5] On January 2, 2013, his nomination was returned to the President, due to the adjournment sine die of the Senate.
On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 28, 2013, by a vote of 11 ayes to 7 nays, mostly along party lines, except that Republican Senator Jeff Flake voted aye.[6]
The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 15, 2013, by a vote of 56 ayes to 41 nays.[7] He received his commission on May 16, 2013.
Exactly.
Looks like the baby-killers did some judge-shopping.
Independent judiciary? What a farce.
What a corrupt legal system.
We should all bow our heads for a moment of silence.
Thanks.
That explains a lot.
Wife of Obama-bundler judge, William Orrick III, is a pro-abort activist
August 4th, 2015
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/08/04/wife-obama-bundler-judge-william-orrick-iii-pro-abort-activist/
One of the hallmarks of the Obama administration has been the total corruption of the executive branch to serve Obama’s political agenda and interests. It doesn’t matter if innocent Mexicans and US Border Patrol agents are killed if gun control legislation can be expanded. US law can be flouted by the IRS to punish Obama opponents. Federal judges can be ignored to create a base of illegal aliens with documentation so large and diffuse that the damage can’t be undone. So is should come as no surprise that the men and women Obama has seen permanently ensconced in the Federal judiciary should have the same operating philosophy.
A federal judge in California has entered a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the pro-life group, Center for Medical Progress. The reasoning is nothing short of bizarre.
District Judge William H. Orrick III in San Francisco issued the restraining order out of concern for the safety of National Abortion Federation leaders.
“NAF would be likely to suffer irreparable injury, absent an ex parte temporary restraining order, in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury to reputation, and the requested relief is in the public interest,” he wrote.
Following Orrick’s reasoning to its logical conclusion it would be illegal for an investigative journalist to release video of a meeting of the Russian mob or MS-13 or any other illegal conspiracy because they, too, would have the exact same set of fears. It is really difficult to see how any group, operating within the law, could make such a case.*
Of course, the law has nothing to do with this. Since the era of the Pentagon Papers it has been pretty well established that prior restraint is not an appropriate legal remedy. If it was true in the case of actual secret documents stolen from the Pentagon, documents that could result in the death or imprisonment of actual people, it should certainly apply to the flight of fancy in which Orrick has engaged. What is at stake is this: the administration is utterly wedded to the practice of infanticide and it will do whatever it takes to protect the procedure and the largest single practitioner of the procedure. Orrick is less a judge than he is a political hack. He didn’t get appointed to the bench because of his legal accomplishments, he purchased a sinecure from the Obama administration by bundling and donating at least $230,000 to Obama.
Not only is Orrick essentially a tenured retainer of the Obama administration, his wife is a vocal advocate of infanticide, so there is no surprise when Orrick acts on his own beliefs, the beliefs of his patron, and the beliefs of his bedmate in order to try to protect what seems like a RICO conspiracy.
Judge Orrick says his career first truly began to dovetail with that of his father — who had served several years as an assistant attorney general during the Kennedy administration — in 2009, when he joined the Department of Justice as a deputy assistant attorney general.
“The one thing I did aspire to follow my father in is that he was able to serve a president that he admired greatly — President Kennedy — and work in Washington,” Judge Orrick says. “I thought that would be a terrific thing to be able to do, and I too was very fortunate to work for a president I greatly admire.”
Enjoying
During his time with the Obama administration, Judge Orrick supervised the DOJ’s office of immigration litigation, and says some of his proudest work came in helping to roll back notoriously strict state-level immigration laws that had cropped up in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and elsewhere.
The judge notes that his work shepherding cases with a real and immediate human toll through the court system helped illuminate for him the vital importance of issuing rulings in a timely manner — a lesson he’s sought to follow in his first year on the bench.
“When I was in Washington I realized that the decisions that a federal district judge makes are important to the government and to people playing the long game in the development of jurisprudence or of a particular case,” he says. “But mostly, those players are very interested in getting a decision.”
In 2012, on the recommendation of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Judge Orrick was nominated by Obama to the Northern District, a post he says he began looking into largely because he felt it would allow him to continue the public service work he had begun with the DOJ.
“I was so enjoying my work every day trying to the right thing for the government,” he says. “I thought: I would like to figure out how to continue doing this the rest of my life, and I have friends who are judges in this district and seem to be enjoying themselves quite a bit.”
The confirmation process was not exactly smooth sailing. Although Judge Orrick was approved by the Judiciary Committee, he was later blocked by Senate Republicans and had to be renominated in January 2013.
During the 10 months his nomination fight dragged on, Judge Orrick left the capital and took refuge at Coblentz, where he took up his old partnership until he was finally approved in May 2013.
“The good thing about that time was I was able to go back to my old firm with my old friends and partners, who were very kind to me, because I couldn’t do very much when I came back,” he says. “But I really was glad when that time period was over.”
The New Kid in Town
The judge says his freshman year on the court was inevitably one of constant education, noting that he has had to learn on the fly about a host of new fields he dealt with rarely in his prior career, including the sort of patent and intellectual property suits that make up a large relative proportion of the Northern District caseload.
He has certainly taken the lessons learned during his government days about the need for speedy resolution to heart, however, and says that one of the most useful habits he’s developed to keep his sprawling docket moving is to be as direct as possible at every hearing in demanding litigants focus on his critical concerns.
“I start off hearings by letting everybody know what I think about the motion before me, and I tell people what I think the right answer is and why I think it,” he says. “I really want people to address what I say and focus on that. And it is remarkable to me how often people pay little attention to what I’ve told them is important, and go on to talk about other things.”
Advice
The first year has also provided Judge Orrick with an opportunity to see firsthand the effects of the sort of legal injustice he’s been concerned with his entire career.
“The most surprising thing to me has been that one-third of my cases involve one side being unrepresented,” Judge Orrick says. “That is a huge issue when you have a system of justice that depends on the adversary system.”
That awareness has helped him to craft a bench demeanor that is focused first and foremost on the individual perspectives and concerns of the litigants before him
“It’s really important not to put the cart before the horse and try to figure out what law is before you understand what the context of the case really is,” Judge Orrick says. “I think the thing that I try to do and feel very strongly about on the bench is not only getting the issue right objectively but also to make sure that the people in the courtroom know that they’ve been heard by me.”
“That’s particularly important with people who are unrepresented,” he adds. “They need to feel that they’ve had their day in court, whether the judge agrees or disagrees with them.”
While Judge Orrick says that it’s an honor to be holding court in the same halls where his father once ruled, he dismisses the idea that fate had a hand, saying instead it is the product of remaining open to the opportunities that were presented to him.
“My big advice to young lawyers is to just say yes,” he says. “People leave law school with great plans for their careers, but where you get in life results from embracing what’s unexpected and running with it.”
http://www.law360.com/articles/559414/the-scion-of-san-francisco-judge-william-h-orrick-iii
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