Tue Dec 13, 2022 – 7:45 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Lawyers representing the undercover investigators who exposed Planned Parenthood’s organ harvesting scandal filed a petition last week to review the case, arguing the court made mistakes that provide grounds for a new trial.
The petition was filed December 5 with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Troy Newman, et al. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) argued in the brief that “rehearing is needed to secure and maintain uniformity of this Court’s decisions and to address questions of exceptional importance, that is, the proper application of RICO and the Fifth Amendment in a civil action.”
ACLJ’s petition comes years after pro-life undercover journalist David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and his partners faced felony charges for exposing Planned Parenthood’s actions of harvesting baby body parts after abortions. The petition calls for a new trial on the grounds of interpretation and implementation errors regarding the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and the Fifth Amendment.
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