Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Gets Review of Immunity Ruling

A whistleblower convinced the full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to review a decision that gave Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. immunity from a suit alleging Medicaid fraud.

The Fifth Circuit granted the whistleblower’s petition for rehearing en banc in a Thursday order.

A three-judge panel’s Feb. 26 ruling is vacated, the order said. The clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the rehearing, it said.

A whistleblower, referred to as “Alex Doe,” conducted an undercover investigation to determine whether Planned Parenthood and its affiliates provided fetal tissue to researchers and tissue procurement companies. Doe recorded ...