Posted on 12/25/2020 10:36:34 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
appointed by Barack Obama
l8r
In addition, Orrick’s wife’s Facebook account was found to have included posted public comments — along with a photo of her and her husband — that indicated support for Planned Parenthood and criticism of Daleiden and CMP.
In June 2019, Senate Judiciary Chairman(SJC) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and his predecessor Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), wrote to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, seeking an update on the federal investigation that was supposedly launched in 2017 into the allegations raised, in part, through the video documentation by CMP.
The senators asked Barr and Wray to respond to their inquiry no later than July 2 of last year.
In August 2019, Breitbart News reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) press team for an update on the Department of Justice/FBI response and was informed SJC was still awaiting a response.
In January 2020, Daleiden told Breitbart News the civil and criminal cases against him and his colleagues “are really all part of the same conspiracy.”
“Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation and Kamala Harris and the California Attorney General’s office,” he said. “All violating our First Amendment civil rights.”
In an op-ed at Breitbart News in October, Daleiden wrote that Harris, who ordered a raid on his California home, is “one of the biggest threats to First Amendment civil liberties that our country has ever seen.”
He continued:
Does anyone doubt that if I had been investigating and publishing undercover video reports on unlicensed gun sales, factory farming, or unsanitary grocery practices, that Harris never would have dreamed of raiding my home? Local news reporters in California tape and publish undercover conversations with corrupt chiropractors in their offices, fraudulent repairmen in private homes, and vendors in unlicensed marijuana dispensaries, but are not prosecuted under the California video recording law. Yet I, who filmed in crowded public restaurants and hotel lobbies, had my home raided and face the first-ever criminal charges for newsgathering under the recording law.
“Is there any doubt why Kamala Harris subjected me alone among undercover video reporters in California to this selective standard of ‘justice?’” he asked. “It is because I dared to question Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, and to speak the truth: Planned Parenthood sells baby parts.”
Dems are the Nazis and the rest of us are the Jews....
In April 2017, Orrick stayed the implementation of the Trump administration’s Executive Order 13768 to withhold funding from sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities, saying Trump had no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending.
In November 2017, Orrick ruled in favor of the City and County of San Francisco and County of Santa Clara (who challenged the order), finding that Section 9(a) of the Executive Order was unconstitutional on its face as a violation of the separation of powers doctrine and the counties’ Tenth and Fifth Amendment rights and issuing a nationwide permanent injunction against its implementation. In 2018, Orrick’s ruling was upheld on appeal, but the scope of the injunction was narrowed to San Francisco and Santa Clara.
Saving the Mods...
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I will cheer the day this evil, satanic organization goes out of business.
The judge is gonna be really, REALLY surprised when THE Judge rules on him.
I began reading the article, and when this guy’s name was first mentioned, I thought “corruption.”
Did the world hear about what Harris did to David?
If so, I didn’t see it.
She attacked the honest man who exposed evil.
She IS evil.
And Orrick and his absurd, narcissistic wife are vile scum.
When do we blast that from the rooftops?
$14 million dollars for telling the truth?
We need to figure out how to hold the justices accountable. They don’t seem to be concerned with Justice at all.
This is how they shut us down. Lawsuits.
Verdict: Biased Judge Leads Jury to Decide in Favor of Planned Parenthood
https://www.fcdflegal.org/verdict-biased-judge-leads-jury-to-decide-in-favor-of-planned-parenthood/
November 16, 2019
Today, the jury in Planned Parenthood, et al. v. Center for Medical Progress (CMP) found our clients, pro-life journalist David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress, liable for causing harm to Planned Parenthood.
After hearing closing arguments on Tuesday and Wednesday, a panel of 10 jurors deliberated over six weeks worth of testimony for two days before deciding Daleiden and his colleagues owe Planned Parenthood $870,000 in punitive damages and over half a million in compensatory damages for their undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby body parts. The verdict found the defendants guilty under the federal Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, among other crimes such as trespassing.
David Daleiden comments:
While top Planned Parenthood witnesses spent six weeks testifying under oath that the undercover videos are true and Planned Parenthood sold fetal organs on a quid pro quo basis, a biased judge with close Planned Parenthood ties spent six weeks influencing the jury with pre-determined rulings and by suppressing video evidence, all in order to rubber-stamp Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit attack on the First Amendment. This is a dangerous precedent for citizen journalism and First Amendment civil rights across the country, sending a message that speaking truth and facts criticizing the powerful is no longer protected by our institutions
David Daleiden, Center for Medical Progress
U.S. District Judge William Orrick III, a Planned Parenthood supporter, made multiple rulings before and during the trial that tipped the scale in Planned Parenthood’s favor, all but ensuring that the jury would not see the full scope of Planned Parenthood’s heinous acts.
Throughout the trial, Orrick was hostile to David, repeatedly cutting off defense questioning he considered straying too close to eliciting information related to Planned Parenthood’s history of selling tissue from aborted fetuses.
Charles LiMandri, FCDF senior counsel, was lead defense attorney during the trial. Co-counsel in David’s defense included St. Thomas More Society.
Now that the verdict is in, FCDF intends to make multiple appeals, from the damages award to challenging Judge Orrick’s biased rulings.
So, this “judge” has criminalized journalism?
Crystal clear conflict of interest.
Denial of civil rights under the color of law as well.
And to see that the Whore of Babylon ordered the raid.
The jews of 1946 maybe
If you have no morals, you can do anything to forward your views; regardless how heinous.
There comes a time when you just say NO.!
Nice Christmas message there judge...Kill those babies!!!
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