{"id":99581,"date":"2016-08-24T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=99581"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:56:48","slug":"law-firm-defending-stemexpress-requests-removal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/law-firm-defending-stemexpress-requests-removal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Law firm defending StemExpress requests removal from case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>McDermott, Will and Emery, the Chicago-based law firm retained to represent StemExpress against the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, <a href=\"https:\/\/lifelegaldefensefoundation.org\/2016\/08\/23\/stem-express-lawyers-want-off-the-case\/\">has filed a motion<\/a> requesting that it be removed from the case, according to Life Legal Defense Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>StemExpress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adflegal.org\/detailspages\/case-details\/stemexpress-v.-the-center-for-medical-progress\">went to court<\/a>\u00a0against CMP to block the latter group&#8217;s release of videos detailing the former&#8217;s involvement in Planned Parenthood&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news\/amanda-marcotte-packs-a-year-of-baby-parts-lies-into-a-single-diatribe\/\">harvesting and sale of aborted babies&#8217; organs for medical research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Those videos, and the resulting Congressional investigation, have indicated that StemExpress violated patient privacy laws, took possession of fetal remains without the necessary consent, failed to obtain approval for its fetal tissue research, and illegally sold fetal remains to researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, a StemExpress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerformedicalprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StemExpress-flyer.pdf\">flyer advertising<\/a> the &#8220;financially profitable&#8221; nature of partnering with the organization on tissue research, severely undermines one of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s central defenses in the scandal, that they supposedly only accepted lawful expense compensation for human organs, rather than illegal profits.<\/p>\n<p>No reason for the law firm&#8217;s request to disassociate from StemExpress has been reported, but Life Legal Defense Foundation suspects it is to preserve their reputation against associations with StemExpress&#8217;s practices and rhetoric, such as CEO Cate Dyer declaring of Planned Parenthood: \u201cYou\u2019re either in the cause or you\u2019re not. And if you\u2019re not, you should just go,\u201d since Planned Parenthood \u201cneed[s] champions in their house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No wonder lawyers for StemExpress want to be removed from the case,&#8221; LLDF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDermott, Will and Emery, the Chicago-based law firm retained to represent StemExpress against the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, has filed a motion requesting that it be removed from the case, according to Life Legal Defense Foundation. StemExpress went to court\u00a0against CMP to block the latter group&#8217;s release of videos detailing the former&#8217;s involvement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":70879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Law firm defending StemExpress requests removal from case<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No reason for the firm&#039;s request for removal has been reported, but Life Legal Defense Foundation suspects it is to preserve their reputation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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