Panel Affirms Fee Award For Planned Parenthood In Undercover Investigation Row

( October 16, 2024, 1:33 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a lower court’s award of $13,781,010.42 in attorney fees and costs to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. “was not unreasonably disproportionate” in its case against anti-abortion activists that conducted an undercover investigative reporting operation related to claims that Planned Parenthood regularly harvested fetal organ tissue....