{"id":80179,"date":"2015-11-16T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=80179"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:46:43","slug":"supreme-court-wont-review-case-secret-planned-parenthood-grant-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-wont-review-case-secret-planned-parenthood-grant-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court won&#8217;t review case of secret Planned Parenthood grant documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The US Supreme Court is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/5404\">declining<\/a> to hear Alliance Defending Freedom and New Hampshire Right to Life&#8217;s case demanding the release of documents pertaining to an Obama Administration grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/adf-files-brief-seeking-details-hhs-grant-planned-parenthood-new-england\/\">covered<\/a>, the petitioners seek documents regarding a $1 million non-competitive grant to provide Title X family planning services, in defiance of the state&#8217;s 2011 decision to deny the abortion giant&#8217;s affiliate such funding\u00a0 over suspicion that Planned Parenthood was directing the money toward abortion services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Supreme Court did not state a reason for rejecting the case, but Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/17\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-over-planned-parenthood-documents.html?_r=0\">dissented<\/a>, arguing intervention was warranted to resolve ambiguity over the scope of the federal Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas also criticized lower courts for imposing &#8220;varying versions of a convoluted test that rests on judicial speculation about whether disclosure will cause competitive harm&#8221; and &#8220;perpetuat[ing] an unsupported interpretation of an important federal statute [which]\u00a0further muddies an already amorphous test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the announcement, ADF-allied attorney Michael Tierney said that &#8220;Americans deserve to know if their tax money is being funneled to groups that are misusing it [&#8230;] HHS is withholding documents that are critical in evaluating apparently illegal funding that the administration provided to the abortion giant despite New Hampshire\u2019s grave concerns and without following normal protocols.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court is declining to hear Alliance Defending Freedom and New Hampshire Right to Life&#8217;s case demanding the release of documents pertaining to an Obama Administration grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. 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