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A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned<\/a> a lower court’s 2023 ruling stating that Planned Parenthood could be liable for nearly $2 billion for defrauding Medicaid.<\/p>\n

The case, Doe v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America<\/em>, involves a lawsuit<\/a> from Texas and Louisiana, in which the states say the abortion business defrauded them out of millions in Medicaid funding.<\/p>\n

The states sought to remove Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid recipient after the 2015 release of undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress<\/a> (CMP). The\u00a0undercover videos<\/a> showed top executives from Planned Parenthood haggling over prices for the sale of body parts from preborn babies its abortionists had killed.<\/p>\n

Though Texas was able to remove Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid funding program by 2017, the abortion business continued to bill for \u2014 and receive \u2014 reimbursement for services. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued in 2022<\/a> to recover $10 million paid to the abortion giant after the 2017 date, as well as more than $1 billion in damages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unthinkable that Planned Parenthood would continue to take advantage of funding knowing they were not entitled to keep it,\u201d Paxton stated in a\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0at the time. \u201cI will not allow them to benefit from this abhorrent conduct after they were caught violating medical standards and lying to law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong> 6 key facts about the revealing New York Times expos\u00e9 on Planned Parenthood\u2019s \u2018crisis\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2023, Texas U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said<\/a> that Planned Parenthood had to return the funds. Now, according to Law & Crime<\/a>, the pre-trial ruling from the three-judge panel at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals “reversed Kacsmaryk\u2019s ruling, holding that a third party does not have a valid legal claim against attorneys for advice they gave to their own clients.”<\/p>\n

As Politico explains<\/a>, the ruling “focused on the challengers\u2019 attempt to hold Planned Parenthood\u2019s national organization financially liable by arguing that the group\u2019s lawyers wrongly advised their affiliates in Texas and Louisiana to continue billing Medicaid while the case played out. The appeals court held that the attorneys can\u2019t be sued by a third party for advice they gave to their own clients.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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,\u201d the judges wrote. \u201cIt is not difficult to imagine the chilling effect that would have on private attorneys\u2019 willingness to participate in unpopular cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a>, the case will now return to the district court and Kacsmaryk for further proceedings.<\/p>\n

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