Posted on 12/25/2020 12:02:58 AM PST by xomething
A federal judge in California ordered the video journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s practices in the harvesting and sales of aborted baby body parts to pay the abortion giant $13.6 million to cover its legal costs in its case against them.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III ordered David Daleiden and his associates at Center for Medical Progress (CMP) to pay $13.6 million over the $2 million in damages they were ordered to pay last year for recording the abortion vendor’s officials while they discussed how they harvest the fetal tissue for sale.
Daleiden and his advocates have now appealed the verdict to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In November 2019, a jury found the pro-life journalists violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), causing significant harm to Planned Parenthood with its video series, and awarded the punitive damages to the abortion provider.
Orrick, Daleiden told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight soon afterward, “is actually the founder of a Planned Parenthood of Northern California clinic in San Francisco.”
He added what he and his legal team discovered about the relationship between Orrick and high-level Democrats:
Planned Parenthood, very intentionally and very strategically and with a lot of gamesmanship, filed this case specifically to get it in San Francisco in front of Judge William Orrick, who is an Obama appointee, who was a bundler for the Obama campaign for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is best friends with Tom Steyer.
Daleiden and his attorneys unsuccessfully attempted to get Orrick recused from the case several times.
The judge blocked the jury from viewing all the undercover video he produced during his undercover investigation, Daleiden said.
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Need to come down hard on all involved with this lunacy. They laws and those supposedly upholdng the laws only work for them when they want them too.
Criminal government.
#ignoredemocratrules
JoMa
A ass poor Orrick!
Some red state should declare itself a First Amendment sanctuary state and offer Daleiden political asylum. Then seek a legal injunction against California barring it from sending a snatch and grab team to kidnap him. Add language enjoining Newsom from sending a hitman as well.
PP is on the ropes. They have closed a lot of chop shops in the last few years. The law has changed on ability to pay. And I would bet Veritas has a lot more to publish. In the future, set irrevocable release dates, and refuse to stop them. Release it all.
Any defiance of the national government will be met with force. The left does not tolerate “sanctuary cities” type behavior by the right. They own the courts in spite of Trump appointments. This is how they will destroy what is left of traditional America. Powell, O’Keefe and possibly Trump will be going to jail. If not jail they will be bankrupted by a government that has unlimited funds to prosecute.
Appeal the stupidity and sanction the judge.
Straight EVIL! I am so angry - the Jury didn’t even get to see the tapes?!
What harm did Daleiden do to Planned Parenthood?
Reveal trade secrets?
Did Judge William Orrick III just get um buy a new house?.
This needs to be emphasized! This "judge" had no business hearing this case at all, much less than awarding any so-called "damages". Total conflict of interest. He should be thrown off the bench.
His Word also says that the shedding of innocent blood is especially hateful to Him as well.
If these people do not repent, they will have an extremely unpleasant meeting with Him on the day of judgment — and it will involve a lot of millstones.
Matt. 18:6 and Luke 17:2
“Appeal”
A sick and evil judicial tyrant for a sick and evil country.
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