Contact: Alexandra Snyder, Life Legal Defense Foundation, 202-717-7371

NAPA, Calif., April 19, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Life Legal Defense Foundation has filed a joint opening brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of National Abortion Federation (NAF) v. Center for Medical Progress and David Daleiden.

NAF sued David Daleiden to prevent hundreds of hours of video footage exposing the abortion cartel's illegal and unethical practices. A federal judge granted NAF's motion for a preliminary injunction to suppress the footage. Life Legal is now appealing that ruling.

Life Legal's brief argues that Daleiden's video recordings included discussions of the sale of fetal body parts for profit and NAF's other illegal, unethical, and shocking practices that are "unquestionably a matter of legitimate public interest."

"If we were talking about undercover videos exposing illegal and inhumane activity at a meatpacking plant, there would be no lawsuit," notes Life Legal Defense Foundation Executive Director Alexandra Snyder. "Everyone would be thanking the investigators for their public service. Here we are talking about inhumane—and inhuman—activities involving human babies. These activities are subsidized by American taxpayers, who have a right to know the extent of the callous disregard for human life displayed by members of the National Abortion Federation."

In a recent meatpacking plant case, a federal court found that undercover video investigations "advance core First Amendment values by exposing misconduct to the public eye and facilitating dialogue on issues of considerable public interest. This type of politically-salient speech is precisely the type of speech the First Amendment was designed to protect." Life Legal couldn't agree more.

About Life Legal Defense Foundation
Life Legal Defense Foundation was established in 1989, and is a nonprofit organization composed of attorneys and other concerned citizens committed to giving helpless and innocent human beings of any age, and their advocates, a trained and committed voice in the courtrooms of our nation. For more information about the Life Legal Defense Foundation, visit www.lldf.org.