Thomas More Society attorneys have secured a settlement of the lawsuit filed against David Daleiden and the University of Washington (“UW”) over Daleiden’s public records requests for documents relating to UW’s national clearinghouse for the fetal tissues and organs of aborted babies. The federal district court allowed the settlement yesterday, clearing the way to end a six-year legal battle that included three appeals to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit was originally brought by an anonymous group of abortion and aborted fetal tissue workers in August 2016, in response to Daleiden’s February 2016 request for documents about their taxpayer-funded programs at UW.
In the settlement, Daleiden secured an agreement to obtain significant additional public documents relating to the UW’s purchase, processing, and sale of the organs and tissue from aborted human fetuses. Daleiden had sought to have job titles unredacted in the records, and the settlement agreement provided for those job titles. The Thomas More Society also secured a $30,000 payment for attorney’s fees from the UW, pursuant to a cross-claim against the UW for violations of the Washington Public Records Act.
“There’s no ‘abortion exception’ to our nation’s public records laws, and the People have a right to know how their government is run,” Breen noted. “We are pleased at the successful resolution of this lawsuit by settlement. That settlement secured attorney’s fees from the UW and nearly everything that David Daleiden was seeking from the UW: thousands of pages of new documents on the buying and selling of aborted fetal tissue trafficking, including job titles and all non-personal information. These are public records of a taxpayer-funded program, and this settlement secures Mr. Daleiden’s rights to the documents he needs as a citizen journalist.”
The settlement dictates that UW will provide numerous documents and records relating to agreements between the university’s medical and research programs and Planned Parenthood or any other abortion provider during a specified time frame. The settlement also requires the release of communications and manuals dealing with policies or procedures, and any records dealing with the acquisition or use of human fetal tissue, human fetal organs, human fetal cell products, human fetal placenta and/or other human products of conception from induced abortions, along with subsequent research, financial records, contracts, grant applications, correspondence, and reports.
Read the Settlement Agreement in Jane Does 1-10, et al v. David Daleiden, et al, as approved by Judge James Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington here.
The above comes from a Dec. 15 posting on LifeNews.com.
God bless the courageous Pro Life warrior, David Daleiden! He is young and courageous, like the young David successfully defeating Goliath! The records state that David Daleiden will turn age 34, on Jan. 1st, New Year’s Day.
How about the $2.4 million he has been ordered to pay Planned Parenthood? How about his pending California criminal trial?
One almost meaningless victory in getting some papers released really amounts to nothing compared with his financial losses and the potential for time in prison.
He’ll have plenty of time to read those papers when he’s in jail, I suppose.
You should prayerfully support heroic, young David Daleiden! The story is not over yet! God will have the final word on this. Remember young David, who miraculously slayed the evil Goliath? God is all-powerful. He loves those babies He created, who were evilly killed. The Pro Life fight for the lives of unborn children belongs to God. We must all keep on praying and working hard for Christ. The Devil will not won this battle. St. Paul, as well as many other saints, did not mind spending time in jail. Afterwards, they spent an eternity in Heaven, with God. And where did those evil persecutors and jailers spend their eternity? Probably with Satan, in Hell.
You people keep saying things like, “Watchout… God’s gonna act… soon!” But he never does. Don’t hold your breath while you wait.
Not sure your spiritual visual acuity is up to seeing when God is acting and has acted. Scripture tells us He is always at work.It takes faith to notice events in the world where He has acted, and faith to read and believe scripture where it shows us His actions. Underestimation of His plan and timing is what pushed Judas down the wrong path. Fr Andrew Greeley in his jaded years once remarked ( i think in context of a remarking turning on St Francis’ canticle to the sun):” When i look up at the sun, i see and old lightbulb hanging in a dingey sky, about to burn out,”
He acts everyday.
He is just and merciful.
He is very patient.
He knows everything and He does all things wisely.
Just pray for His Will to be done.
God’s ways are mysterious. God acts in many ways, in His own Divine Wisdom, in His own time. He gave mankind the gift of free will. He often acts through the hearts and hands of mankind. We are living in a wicked, evil era, a Dark Age of the Culture of Death, that shuns God, and worships egoism, sin, and the Golden Calf of money, sex, pleasure, and filth of every kind. On earth, we have many trials to bear. Through prayer, penance, purification, and perseverance, we will, by God’s help, end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, every soul is called by God, at some point, to account for sin.
And score a loss for Frank Pavone.
Father Pavone dismissed from priesthood.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253106/vatican-dismisses-father-frank-pavone-from-priesthood
I know many months ago people who talking about whatever happened to him.
Perhaps the Catholic Church no longer wants to support Pro Life?? They already totally wrecked Pope St. John Paul II’s Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family. Why don’t they excommunicate evil Abp. Paglia and his heretical group? And tear down Paglia’s filthy, homoerotic fresco? How can worshippers and their families stand to look at that abomination, during Advent and Christmas?
He wasn’t dismissed from priesthood, which is ontologically impossible; he was dismissed from the clerical state.
He is now a layman, so it is improper to address or refer to him with the title “Father”. He’s now simply Mr. Frank Pavone.
Blasphemy and disobedience to ecclesiastical authority were the reasons given for his dismissal.
Frank became too involved in politics and had too large of an ego. “He has cast down the mighty from their thrones.”
Now the Holy See should also dismiss or discipline Fr. James Martin, S.J. for promoting heresy.
You are correct– because priestly ordination is forever. Forner Fr. Frank Pavone was dismissed from the clerical state. I goofed on that one too, in my comments.
I read and re-read the news stories about Fr. Frank Pavone’s dismissal from the priesthood, by the Vatican. The news stories seemed very vague to me, however. Insubordination to the Bishop was clear, but no details were given. I thought of Fr. James Altman– will that also be his fate? And why isn’t Fr. James Martin, S.J., dismissed from the priesthood, for promoting the heretical, immoral LGBT agenda, along with the heterodox, LGBT-promoting, German Synodal Way bishops, and filthy Abp. Paglia? Plus, all other bad clergy? Why was Santa Sabina’s horrific, liturgically-abusive, Fr. Pfleger re-instated, in the Archdiocese of Chicago? What happened to the three men who accused Fr. Pfleger of sexual abuse in the 1970s? Was it true? And many other terrible cases…. Why did the Vatican pick on Fr. Frank Pavone– now just a “Mr. Pavone?” Was it his financial issues with a Texas bishop, of a couple of decades ago– or just too many disagreements with bishops whose Dioceses he worked in– or just what? What does Janet Morana think about all of this? So sorry for her. What will happen to her?
Well, I just read the entire story, told in a very long interview with Pavone… The interview starts from the time of Pavone’s ordination in 1988, by NY Archbishop John O’Connor, one of the few prelates who was an ardent pro-life supporter. It was Bishop Zurek, Pavone’s former bishop, of Amarillo, Texas, with whom he had years of disagreements– who demanded the laicization of Pavone. The whole story is predictable, but shocking, anyway. A good priest, doing good work– yet, not in the way the bishops desired… Too many conflicts. Here is what I always thought. When I was young, before Vatican II, the great, big Church leaders tackled heavy moral issues, all as one voice, very strong, from the Vatican. No individual “opinions,” no separate, one-issue crusades. The Faith was one. The Pope was a rock of moral authority, for the world to listen to, Catholics and non-Catholics alike. There is a true “right” and “wrong,” that Christ taught. You have to be stern, unwavering in His Truth, and teach it, stand firmly behind it, altogether, as one Church– from the Pope on down the “Chain of Command.” Period. And if the Pope and clergy all get caught and shot by a monster like Caesar or Hitler– then, you stand there, in Christ’s Truth– and you DIE for it! That is what I have always believed.
Today’s Church is not unified on the sin of abortion, and ending it, and excommunicating bad Catholics like Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, etc., promoting sexual sins and the killing of unborn children. Cowards. Former Fr. Frank Pavone was a Pro Life Hero, despite his mistakes, and conflicts with the bishops. The pope makes mistakes, too. However, tragically– R.H.I.P. (“rank has its privileges”) as they say, in the military. What a shame.
I think the biggest effect of the loss of clerical state (but retention of priesthood as a reality) will be to signal to the world that the Vatican views abortion as a pecadillo….and the message to all ranks of clergy is “you might be next”.
With his long hair he looks like Severus Snape.
I just read an article today, by Russell Shaw, in “The Catholic Thing,” stating that there is a rumor going around Rome, that the Pope may soon issue an encyclical condoning artificial contraception. Nobody seems to know much about this rumor. I don’t see how a Pope can change Catholic teaching. Hope this isn’t true.