They claimed they were acting as undercover journalists seeking to expose abortionists profiting from selling fetal tissue for medical research, and thereby increase public and legislative support for defunding Planned Parenthood.
The jury awarded Planned Parenthood $870,000 in punitive damages. Because that amount was tripled under the federal racketeering law, the award combined with compensatory damages totaled more than $2 million.
The ‘evidence’ defendants actually gathered and then published as a result of the conduct the jury found was illegal did not itself show any illegal conduct by Planned Parenthood or plaintiff affiliates.
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