Posted on 04/09/2021 12:54:51 PM PDT by amorphous
As expected, a federal judge who has ties to Planned Parenthood permanently blocked undercover journalist David Daleiden this week from releasing additional videos that Daleiden says show evidence of infanticide in the abortion industry.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the permanent injunction at the request of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and demanded that Daleiden turn over the video footage, according to lawyers representing NAF.
The order applies to about 200 hours of video footage that Daleiden and other undercover investigators with the Center for Medical Progress recorded at a NAF conference.
Additionally, the judge granted NAF lawyers’ motion for summary judgment in the case. NAF sued Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress for breach of contract.
“What’s on the footage from abortion industry tradeshows that [Planned Parenthood] leaders are so desperate to cover up?” Daleiden responded on Twitter Thursday. “Maybe it has something to do with the baby parts companies sponsoring the tradeshow? Maybe with our expert who says the [conversations] show infanticide? The truth must be revealed.”
In February, Daleiden’s lawyer Peter Breen, of the Thomas More Society, told the judge that releasing the undercover footage is a matter of “public interest.” Breen said police and lawmakers especially should be allowed to view the videos if they are investigating NAF or Planned Parenthood.
But Orrick disagreed, arguing in his ruling that he personally reviewed the recordings and found “no criminal activity,” Breitbart reports.
Here’s more from The Federalist:
Daleiden’s defense team was hoping an expert report from an OB-GYN and longtime abortionist Forrest Smith, who reviewed the videos and testified that Planned Planned employees violated standard medical practices, would contradict Orrick’s own findings … It appears Orrick had no problem finding a way to disregard Smith’s report altogether, to instead rely on his own “personal review” of the videos.
In deciding whether the videos are of “public interest,” Orrick admitted that the Center for Medical Progress’s investigations “resulted in government investigations, criminal prosecutions, and regulatory activity,” but determined once again that the videos he watched “disclosed no criminal activity.”
In a statement, the Center for Medical Progress said Smith, the longest-practicing abortion provider in the U.S., reviewed the videos and found evidence of infanticide and sales of aborted baby body parts.
The judge’s “decision hides the most incriminating and damning footage under the fig leaf of trade show exhibit agreements which explicitly permitted exhibitor recording,” the organization said.
Meanwhile, NAF celebrated the ruling, arguing that the release of the additional videos could lead to “harassment, threats and violence directed at NAF, its members and abortion providers generally.”
The NAF case is one of several against Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress. Planned Parenthood also sued, and the state attorney general’s office, under the leadership of current HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Vice President Kamala Harris, is pursuing criminal charges against him.
Daleiden and the CMP investigation did a lot of damage to the abortion industry when they revealed Planned Parenthood’s baby body parts operation. Not only did the undercover investigation raise concerns about potentially illegal sales of human body parts, but it also uncovered evidence of abortionists allegedly putting women’s lives at risk by altering abortion procedures to better harvest aborted baby parts. The investigators also found evidence of possible patient privacy violations.
These findings prompted investigations by the U.S. House and Senate, as well as a number of states. The House and Senate investigations both recommended that the Department of Justice investigate Planned Parenthood after finding strong evidence that the abortion chain broke the law. The Department of Justice is investigating.
Two of Planned Parenthood’s business partners in Orange County, California also admitted to selling aborted baby body parts in a $7.8 million settlement with the county district attorney’s office.
However, Planned Parenthood and NAF repeatedly have denied all allegations of wrong-doing, and many news outlets now parrot their claim that the undercover videos were deceptively edited. An independent forensics investigation verified that the videos were authentic.
Some undercover videos show how Planned Parenthood employees callously and flippantly negotiated the price of tiny baby hearts, lungs, livers and brains. Other evidence indicates the abortion giant may have broken HIPAA patient privacy laws.
The expose videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of all 14:
In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.
In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.
In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to go.”
In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.”
In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”
In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”
In the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.
The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb.
The 10th video: catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling specific body parts — including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies. The video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body parts for profit.
Unreleased Videos: Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the “financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts.
The 11th video: catches a Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.
The 12th video: in the series shows new footage of Jennefer Russo, medical director at Planned Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing to undercover investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact aborted babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the abortion procedure to do so.
The 13th video: exposes a Planned Parenthood medical director admitting that babies born alive after abortion are sometimes killed.
The 14th video: catches Planned Parenthood executives discussing gruesome abortion procedures and the sale of body parts from aborted babies for profit.
NAZI JUDGE!!!
U.S. District Judge William Orrick just suppressed evidence of crimes which is a crime itself. He needs to be arrested and charged.
bammy appointee.
Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!
U.S. District Judge William Orrick should be tried, convicted, and sentenced for giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. The judge is sheer evil.
The judge can go sexually service himself.
Drop the lot.
Yes. As soon as no one is looking that evidence will disappear.
Freedom of Information Act only applies to the federal Executive Branch. Both Congress and the Judiciary are exempted from the statute by the statute.
That isn’t to say there aren’t avenues available to interested parties - like journalists - to unseal sealed court records. But, those avenues don’t include FOIA.
States, OTOH, often do have sunshine laws that give a good deal of people to John Q Public to uncover evidentiary materials that may or may not have been used in a criminal case, like your Columbine videos.
But it is suppressed evidence from the trial. The trial is about those tapes. Is Planned Parenthood claiming trade secrets on those tape?
Even with the trade secrets claim the church of Scientology found that the alien story got leaked to the public through court papers.
Prevent the truth from ever seeing the light of day.....is this the USA?
Judge Orrick was selected by Obama from the official Garbage Can of Humanity. Included in the Garbage Can of Humanity are queers, freaks, perverts, fools, criminals, mentally challenged, mentally ill, demon possessed, corrupt officials, incompetents, Satanists, traitors, and every form of scum of the Earth. The demented half wit Biden has continued the practice of selecting nominees from the Garbage Can of Humanity.
I’m not sure what grounds the judge had to seal the records. As you’re probably aware, with few exceptions, court records - including the evidentiary record - generally become public domain once the trial concludes (there may be some grace period given for the appellate process to conclude, I’m not sure IANAL).
But, parties to the trial can move to seal the entire record or parts of the record - which may or may not be granted by the trial judge - and I believe (but am not positive) that the judge can seal the records sua sponte. I have no idea what the mechanics were of the sealing of these tapes. I suspect it has something to do the defendants being convicted, but that’s only a guess.
I do know that challenges to sealed records get litigated all the time in federal court. Perhaps this will be one of those times.
FWIW, the only reason I know anything about this is I was a principle in a company that was sued. We prevailed in court but there was sensitive competitive information in the court record we unsuccessfully tried to seal. Courts have become more resistant to these requests the last several years, which makes this particular case that much more peculiar. And/But, this PP thing was a criminal case and the rules may be much different than they are in civil litigation.
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The era we are in: those with the best lawyers wins.
Either that, or you better be a better complainer.
These cases must rise to higher courts.
Remember, no rights are absolute now.
There is a lot of Satanic ghoulishness going on here.
Our courts are as corrupt as the DOJ, FBI, IRS, DHS, ATF, SC, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, DMV. It’s all corrupt
“videos could lead to “harassment...” Silly argument.
Yeah, well. There are many videos on YouTube that “could”, possibly, maybe, perhaps, and might lead to harassment.
MMO was a similar reprobate
These ppl think they’re “progressive”
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