{"id":404263,"date":"2021-04-09T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=404263"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:28:14","slug":"judge-prohibits-release-of-undercover-pro-life-activists-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-prohibits-release-of-undercover-pro-life-activists-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Prohibits Release of Undercover Pro-Life Activist\u2019s Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-prohibits-release-of-undercover-pro-life-activists-recordings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=404263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.165876777251\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Activist accuses judge of violating First Amendment<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1159.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-508403374-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-508403374-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-508403374-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-508403374-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1158.jpeg 726w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs\">\n\t\t\t\tDavid Daleiden, a defendant in an indictment stemming from a Planned Parenthood video he helped produce, speaks to the media after appearing in court at the Harris County Courthouse on February 4, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Eric Kayne\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/graham-piro\/\" title=\"Posts by Graham Piro\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Graham Piro<\/a> \u2022 April 9, 2021 4:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"72.403440860215\">\n<p>A judge permanently banned the release of undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood employees discussed the alleged sale of fetal body parts.<\/p>\n<p>William Orrick, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled Wednesday that pro-life videographer David Daleiden was in breach of contract when he secretly recorded videos of the National Abortion Federation&#8217;s conferences. The ruling bars Daleiden from ever releasing the videos he recorded at the conference, meaning hundreds of hours of footage will never see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defendants&#8217; First Amendment arguments do not defeat preclusion or otherwise weigh against entry of judgment on the breach of contract claim,&#8221; Orrick wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the Thomas More Society, the law firm representing Daleiden, said they plan on appealing the ruling. Firm vice president and senior counsel Peter Breen said the court&#8217;s ruling violated journalistic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This permanent injunction covering up the release of incriminating video from a large abortion trade show strikes at the heart of the First Amendment,&#8221; Breen said. &#8220;The American people deserve to see and hear what the abortion providers of this country are willing to say and do to skirt and even violate the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daleiden&#8217;s videos purportedly show Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue. Daleiden&#8217;s legal representation has argued that he used tactics similar to other undercover journalists. A coalition of groups including PETA and free speech organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/peta-defends-pro-life-activist\/\">filed<\/a> briefs on behalf of Daleiden, arguing that his tactics echoed those of whistleblowers in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is the latest in a long line of developments in the legal conflicts surrounding Daleiden&#8217;s work as an undercover journalist. Last year, Orrick ruled that Daleiden had to pay more than $13 million to cover Planned Parenthood&#8217;s legal fees. Daleiden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/undercover-journalist-hits-planned-parenthood-with-defamation-lawsuit\/\">filed<\/a> a defamation suit against Planned Parenthood in September alleging the organization launched a smear campaign against him to distract from the content of Daleiden&#8217;s videos.<\/p>\n<p>Orrick&#8217;s role in the legal proceedings has also come under scrutiny due to his past financial support of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Northern California. Daleiden&#8217;s attorneys unsuccessfully <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/federal-appellate-court-denies-request-to-remove-judge-in-planned-parenthood-video-expose-lawsuit\/\">attempted<\/a> to get Orrick removed from the case.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist accuses judge of violating First Amendment  David Daleiden, a defendant in an indictment stemming from a Planned Parenthood video he helped produce, speaks to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311934,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1159.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Judge Prohibits Release of Undercover Pro-Life Activist\u2019s Recordings","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1159.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Judge Prohibits Release of Undercover Pro-Life Activist\u2019s Recordings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}