Posted on 02/28/2025 10:25:09 AM PST by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 26 that Planned Parenthood is not required to pay back millions of dollars it defrauded from Medicaid, reversing a lower court ruling.
POLITICO reported that both Texas and Louisiana attempted to remove the local branches of Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs after a whistleblower revealed that the abortion company provided fetal tissue from abortions to researchers in 2015.
During years of litigation to remove Planned Parenthood, the company’s attorneys advised that the Texas and Louisiana branches continue billing Medicaid. Texas ultimately succeeded in removing Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid, but Louisiana did not.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued in 2022 to recover $10 million that he argued Planned Parenthood was not entitled to receive. He also sued for more than $1 billion in damages, according to POLITICO.
“It is unthinkable that Planned Parenthood would continue to take advantage of funding knowing they were not entitled to keep it,” Paxton stated in a news release at the time. “I will not allow them to benefit from this abhorrent conduct after they were caught violating medical standards and lying to law enforcement.”
According to Bloomberg Law, a district court ruled in 2023 in favor of Texas, ordering Planned Parenthood to return millions in Medicaid funds. However, a three-judge panel at the 5th Circuit reversed the previous ruling, stating that the attorneys’ advice to their clients remains protected.
“If private attorneys did not have immunity for their activities within the scope of litigation, they would be subject to suit from a third party every time they represent an unpopular client or advance an unpopular issue,” the judges wrote, according to POLITICO. “It is not difficult to imagine the chilling effect that would have on private attorneys’ willingness to participate in unpopular cases.”
Bloomberg Law reported that Planned Parenthood’s general counsel, Susan Manning, called the lawsuit “politically-motivated.”
According to POLITICO, the case will now return to the district court “for further arguments on the remaining claims against the state affiliates.”
Take it to the SC.
This is disappointing, coming from the 5th Circuit.
Another RAT black-robed pipe bomb goes off on Americans.
Wrong is right. Got it. What an example to put forth to the American people.
I guess I don't see how this makes the fraud OK.
So fraud and theft is ok if you are “planned parenthood?” For everyone else, you go to jail.
I DEMAND ELON GO THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD LIKE A SALT ENEMA
so then...the courts PROVE, one again, who the real enemies are? THESE United States of America need a wake-up call or we will vote our collective selves right back INTO the judicial tyranny that muslims enjoy under sharia.
“Corrupt judiciary legalizes theft of government funding”
“stating that the attorneys’ advice to their clients remains protected”
BS, if their attorney(s) said go out and murder someone they are protected? They got bad advice and could have chosen wisely, they didn’t, because they have one agenda, worship Satan and his desire to kill babies.
I guess that also means that captured bank robbers are not required to return stolen money either.
Same logic.
"Planned Parenthood doesn’t have to pay back millions it defrauded from Medicaid taxpayers, appeals court rules"
There! Fixed it.
5th Circuit en Banc first.
EC
APPEAL
So if I want to defraud the gov’t of millions of dollars, all I have to do is find a shady law firm to advise me it’s legal?
Yeah, ask attorney John Eastman among many others who were disbarred for advising President Trump.
Our courts are crap thanks to stupid and Leftist judges. The courts protect the criminals more than the law abiding citizens and 90 percent of the problems are the judges.
Appeal, appeal, appeal.
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