Judge Blocks Release of Planned Parenthood Videos
Saturday, 01 Aug 2015 08:31 AM
A federal judge blocked the release of any recordings made
at meetings of an abortion providers' association by an anti-abortion group
that previously revealed secretly recorded videos of a Planned Parenthood leader.
Judge William Orrick in
San
Francisco on Friday issued a
temporary restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress hours after
the order was requested by the National Abortion Federation.
In his three-page order, Orrick said the federation would
likely suffer irreparable injury absent a temporary restraining order "in
the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury
to reputation."
The National Abortion Federation sued in federal court in
San Francisco, alleging the Center for Medical Progress infiltrated its
meetings and recorded its members. The group says release of any audio or video
would put members in danger.
"The safety and security of our members is our top priority," Vicki Saporta, association president and CEO, said in a statement. "That security has been compromised by the illegal activities of a group with ties to those who believe it is justifiable to murder abortion providers."
David Daleiden, a leader of the Center for Medical Progress
who is also named in the suit, said in a statement that Planned Parenthood and
its allies were trying to silence the group and suppress investigative
journalism.
"The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable
laws in the course of our investigative journalism work and will contest all
attempts from Planned Parenthood and their allies to silence our First
Amendment rights," he said.
The center has released several secretly recorded videos
that have riled anti-abortion activists, including one Thursday of a Planned
Parenthood doctor in Colorado. It has accused Planned Parenthood of selling
fetal tissue for profit, which is illegal, and Republicans in Congress have
begun discussing cutting off funding for the organization.
The undercover video released Thursday shows Dr. Savita
Ginde, vice president of Denver-based Planned Parenthood of the Rocky
Mountains, discussing prices of aborted fetal remains, the center says. Planned
Parenthood issued a statement calling the video "misleading and
deceptively edited."
An earlier video shows Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, describing techniques for obtaining fetal body parts for research. She spoke over lunch with activists posing as potential buyers from a human biologics company.
Planned Parenthood says it abides by a law that allows
providers to be reimbursed for the costs of processing tissue donated by women
who have had abortions. The payments cited by Planned Parenthood officials in
some of the videos range from $30 to $100 per specimen, and the organization has
subsequently confirmed that is the general range, although there is no fixed
price list.
In Friday's lawsuit, the National Abortion Federation
alleges that the center created a fake company to get into the federation's
annual meetings in 2014 and 2015 and then recorded its members with the goal of
smearing abortion-rights supporters.
John Nockleby, a professor at Loyola Law School and expert
in privacy law, said California privacy law is stricter than some
other states. To record a confidential communication in California, all parties
participating in it must agree to the recording.
The National Abortion Federation has shown a strong
likelihood of prevailing on its argument that the Center for Medical Privacy
invaded its privacy, he said.
The National Abortion Federation "made it clear both in
its written documents and also all kinds of other releases how important it was
that everything about the meeting be confidential," he said.
Orrick on Friday also blocked the Center for Medical Progress from releasing the dates of any of the National Abortion Federation's future meetings and the names and addresses of its members.
A California court this week issued a temporary restraining
order blocking the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video of
leaders of StemExpress, a California company that provides fetal tissue to
researchers.
In one of the previously aired videos, a woman identified as
a former StemExpress phlebotomist describes drawing blood and dissecting dead
fetuses.
Associated Press National Writer David Crary in New York and
writer P. Solomon Banda in Denver contributed to this report.
William H. Orrick III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Orrick_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Orrick_III
William Horsley Orrick, III (born
May 15, 1953) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California. He formerly served as a
Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of
the United States Department of Justice.
Biography
Orrick was born in San Francisco, California on May
15, 1953.[1][2] He
received his Bachelor
of Arts cum laude, from
Yale University in
1976. He received his Juris
Doctorate cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1979. After graduating, he worked
for the Georgia Legal Services Program from 1979 to 1984. He joined the San
Francisco law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in 1984 and
continued there for twenty five years, becoming a partner in 1988. From June
2009 to June 2010, he served as counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for
the Civil Division of
the United States Department of Justice. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a
Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division.[3] His
father, William H. Orrick, Jr.,
was a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California and
served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Kennedy
Administration. He briefly rejoined Coblentz,
Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP as
special counsel, before accepting appointment to District Court.
Federal
judicial service
On June 11, 2012, President Obama
nominated Orrick to be a United
States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern
District of California, to the seat vacated by Judge Charles R. Breyer,
who took senior
status on December 31, 2011.[4] The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing
on his nomination on July 11, 2012, and reported it to the floor on August 2,
2012.[5] On
January 2, 2013, his nomination was returned to the President, due to the adjournment sine die of the Senate.
On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same
office. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February
28, 2013, by a vote of 11 ayes to 7 nays, mostly along party lines, except that
Republican Senator Jeff
Flake voted aye.[6]
The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 15, 2013, by a
vote of 56 ayes to 41 nays.[7] He
received his commission on May 16, 2013.
San
Francisco
Dianne Feinstein was the mayor of San Francisco (CA), is a U.S. Senate
senator, married to Richard C. Blum, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Note: Richard C. Blum is
married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, an Economic Advisory Council member
for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a director & former
chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., and a regent at the University of
California.
Frederic V. Malek
is a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., and a member of the Alfalfa
Club.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a member of the Alfalfa Club, and Howard Wolfson
is his adviser.
Howard Wolfson is Michael R. Bloomberg’s adviser, married to Terri
McCullough, and was a partner at the Glover Park Group.
Terri McCullough
is married to Howard Wolfson, and Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff.
Nancy Pelosi’s
chief of staff is Terri McCullough, the speaker for the CA
congressional delegation, Cecile Richards was her deputy chief of
staff, and was invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.
CA
congressional delegation is the delegation for the State of California.
Cecile Richards
was Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, and is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation
of America.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Daisy M.
Soros’s brother-in-law, was married in 2013, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund.
Glover Park
Group is the lobby firm for the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
Elizabeth Engel
is a lobbyist for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and a managing
director for the Glover Park Group.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Glover
Park Group.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie
B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
William K.
Coblentz was a senior director at the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, a senior partner at Coblentz, Patch,
Duffy & Bass, the chairman for the University of California, and
the attorney & friend of Randolph A. Hearst.
William H. Orrick
is a partner at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, was a fundraiser for
the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, nominated by Barack
Obama, and his father was William H. Orrick, Jr.
William Horsley Orrick,
Jr.
Patty Hearst’s sentencing judge was William
Horsley Orrick, Jr., a kidnap victim-turned member of the Symbionese
Liberation Army, and Randolph A. Hearst’s daughter.
Randolph A. Hearst was Patty Hearst’s father, William K. Coblentz was
his attorney & friend, and married to Veronica DeGruyter Beracasa de
Uribe Hearst.
Veronica
DeGruyter Beracasa de Uribe Hearst was married to Randolph
A. Hearst, and is a leader’s council member for the Breast Cancer
Research Foundation.
Daisy M. Soros is
a leader’s council member for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and
George Soros’s sister-in-law.
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