Key Court Ruling Coming in Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood

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Key Court Ruling Coming in Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood
Imani Gandy

by Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check

September 22, 2015 - 5:38 pm

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide whether the National Abortion Federation or the Center for Medical Progress will emerge victorious in the discovery battle that has raged between the parties for weeks.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide whether the National Abortion Federation or the Center for Medical Progress will emerge victorious in the discovery battle that has raged between the parties for weeks. (Shutterstock)

See more of our coverage on the effects of the misleading Center for Medical Progress videos here.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide whether the National Abortion Federation (NAF) or the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the anti-choice organization behind a Planned Parenthood smear campaign, will emerge victorious in the discovery battle that has raged between the parties for weeks.

NAF has so far successfully stymied CMP’s efforts to release additional videos. In late July, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) in NAF’s favor, blocking CMP from publishing videos containing information NAF alleges CMP stole.

CMP maintains that the temporary restraining order and any preliminary injunction that Orrick might issue constitutes prior restraint, or pre-publication censorship, and is a violation of CMP’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

CMP also claims that it has uncovered evidence of criminal activity on the part of NAF and its members, including Planned Parenthood, and that releasing the videos is of grave public importance.

NAF contends that CMP stole information from NAF by signing confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements by which CMP never intended to be bound, in order to gain access to NAF’s annual meetings and members fraudulently and under false pretenses...........