Posted on 07/19/2019 2:30:22 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Judge Upholds David Daleidens 1st Amendment Right to Expose Planned Parenthood Aborted Baby Part Sales
Undercover investigator David Daleiden has been vindicated in court today against the bogus lawsuit Planned Parenthood filed after his videos exposed the abortion giant for selling aborted baby parts.
Daleiden has maintained from the beginning that he and the Center for Medical Progress followed all applicable laws in the course of its investigative journalism and that the lawsuit was politically-motivated retribution as opposed to a suit based on legitimate damages.
In a big victory for the First Amendment freedoms of citizen journalists on Wednesday evening, a federal judge in San Francisco indicated his intent to decisively cut back Planned Parenthoods retaliatory lawsuit against The Center for Medical Progress for the undercover videos documenting Planned Parenthoods sale of aborted baby parts.
In his tentative ruling, which he instructed the parties to treat as if it were substantially final, Judge William Orrick III rejected Planned Parenthoods false and long-running smear that accused CMP citizen journalists, including David Daleiden, of attempting to incite threats and violence by publishing the undercover videos.
Judge Orrick wrote he was inclined to exclude from the case all damages that stem from third parties reactions to the release of the video recordings as impermissible damages barred by the First Amendment absent a defamation claim.Judge Orrick left in place only damages for investigating intrusions into Planned Parenthoods space, and improvements to access-security measures for conferences and facilities, as well as nominal and statutory damages.
David Daleiden, CMP founder and project lead, told LifeNews: Now that all the facts, evidence, and testimony are in, even Planned Parenthoods favorite judge refuses to buy into the abortion giants fake news and lies about the honest motives and protected speech of pro-life citizen journalists. Planned Parenthood is a government-sponsored crime syndicate selling baby body parts like widgets on an assembly line and should only appear in federal court as a criminal defendant.
Planned Parenthood sought more than $20 million in damages, but the Obama-appointed judge eviscerated that far-reaching request. The ruling significantly downsizes Planned Parenthoods lawsuit, reducing potentially over $20 million at issue to less than $100,000.
According to a CMP statement to LifeNews, the ruling affirms that citizen journalists exercising their First Amendment rights to speak and publish cannot be held liable for any bad actions taken by others in the free marketplace of ideas, absent a clear showing of defamation or intent to incite imminent lawless action. Planned Parenthood could provide no evidence or testimony in the case to back up either accusation, and so a lawsuit that was once an avalanche of charges has been reduced to essentially a trespassing dispute.
Judge Orrick previously faced scrutiny presiding over the case because of his history founding, promoting, and donating to a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco run by Plaintiff Planned Parenthood Northern California. That he would rule so strongly against Planned Parenthood speaks volumes.
i guess he’s not so “under cover” anymore
NOT tired of WINNING yet!
Keep it coming. The misery, fright(?)
we see on a number of faces is a first for most of US.
I’m trying to understand why they should get any “damages”
Nice. I tried to impress this upon my son.
It pretty much boiled down to: Its okay to fail. Every one does. Learn from failure. Whats not okay is quitting.
L
Is this then guy Kamala Harris investigated instead of investigating the baby parts sellers.
>Im trying to understand why they should get any damages
I ask the same question, but I ‘misspell’ mine “taxpayer $$”
Kamala Harris is responsible for tying up this case and videos in court for years.
I wonder how much $$$ PP has contributed to her campaigns?
Judge Orrick previously faced scrutiny presiding over the case because of his history founding, promoting, and donating to a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco run by Plaintiff Planned Parenthood Northern California. That he would rule so strongly against Planned Parenthood speaks volumes.
With San Fran being such a gay and happy life, why do they need abortionariums there?
Kind of scary you have to go to court to tell the truth about abortion.
Judge William Orrick III rejected Planned Parenthoods false and long-running smear that accused CMP citizen journalists, including David Daleiden, of attempting to incite threats and violence by publishing the undercover videos.
About time.
[Kind of scary you have to go to court to tell the truth about abortion.]
The hour is late and the day is long past.
This kind of horror is the Democrat gold standard of “women’s health”.
A euphemism for systematic slaughter.
[With San Fran being such a gay and happy life, why do they need abortionariums there?]
San Fran Nan said SanFagSicko “is the best example of living the Gospel”.
And then someone here said “Nancy, you’ll be naked in Heaven” (don’t know if it was the same thread).
This was many years ago. I just shook my head.
A US judge was able to figure this out? Amazing.
This is a democrat tactic. Get a liberal judge to rule incorrectly, blatantly so, to tie someone up in court costs of appeals. They know they won’t win but they will cost someone money. Even is the target wins getting them to pay court costs gets tied up in endless appeals.
I don't think it would be Heaven if we had to look at a naked Pelosi.
LOL
Here is a link to a YouTube video where David talks about Kamala Harris and Planned Parenthoods.
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