WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court refused to be drawn into a high-profile lawsuit about abortion-related undercover sting videos when it declined April 1 to review a lower court’s decision denying the Center for Medical Progress’s motion to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s federal and state claims against it.
CMP, led by activist David Daleiden, took the position that the videos were a valid exercise of First Amendment rights. The group also claimed that the Planned Parenthood lawsuit went against California’s “anti-SLAPP” laws, which forbid strategic legal action designed to silence individuals or groups.
