{"id":209399,"date":"2019-08-27T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209399"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T21:26:10","slug":"court-charges-planned-parenthood-investigators-trial-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/court-charges-planned-parenthood-investigators-trial-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses more charges against Planned Parenthood investigators, but trial still set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The court battle against the Center for Medical Progress and its undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt continues, this time with some slightly more positive news. The mixed ruling dropped some — but not all — of the charges against Daleiden and Merritt, who are being dragged through the courts after uncovering Planned Parenthood’s involvement with the alleged sale of aborted baby body parts. The case will go before a jury this fall.<\/p>\n

According to Liberty Counsel<\/a>, the firm representing Merritt, Judge William Orrick ruled that Planned Parenthood lacked “sufficient evidence” for some of the 15 charges filed, including claims of breach of contract, some of its claims for trespass, and for illegal recording in Florida.<\/p>\n

“Significantly, the court also ruled that the First Amendment bars Planned Parenthood\u2019s claims for damages alleged to arise from the publication of the undercover videos or the reaction of the public to those videos,” the Liberty Counsel statement said. “This essentially guts Planned Parenthood\u2019s case, as the bulk of its made-up ‘damages’ are alleged to arise from the publication of the videos and from the public\u2019s reaction to them.”<\/p>\n