Planned Parenthood Mass Shooting Case Headed for Jury

A jury must decide whether a Planned Parenthood facility was negligent in a mass shooting that killed three and wounded nine others, a Colorado appeals court ruled.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Inc. was on notice about the risk of anti-abortion violence before Robert Dear stormed the Colorado Springs health clinic in 2015, the Colorado Court of Appeals said Feb. 21 in a split decision.

Landowners generally aren’t liable for unforeseeable criminal acts on their property, but here there was evidence PPRM knew such violence was more than a possibility, the court said.

The ruling, which overturned a summary ...