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SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 3, 2021 (Operation Rescue) – Attorneys with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), who represent Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, filed an appeal brief last week with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal seeks a reversal of a hefty $16 million total judgment brought against him and three co-defendants in a retaliatory lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood after an undercover journalism project exposed their involvement in the illegal trafficking of aborted baby body parts.
Newman’s 68-page brief was one of four appeals briefs filed in the Planned Parenthood case. The other briefs were submitted by attorneys for Newman’s co-defendants David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt, and Albin Rhomberg.
Newman’s attorneys argue that the jury erred in finding Newman culpable for violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law while consulting on the three-year undercover investigation into the sale of aborted baby remains by Planned Parenthood, members of the National Abortion Federation, and other abortionists.
They also argue that Newman’s Constitutional Rights were violated when the jury was allowed to draw twenty negative inferences from invocations
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