SAN FRANCISCO—Opening arguments in Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against a group of anti-abortion activists who infiltrated conferences and took clandestine videos meant to discredit the organization and its affiliates, made this much clear: The federal judge overseeing the trial will have his hands full over the next six weeks in keeping lawyers on-topic.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III, who has overseen the case since it was filed in 2016 has made clear to the parties that he wants the trial to focus on the strategies used by the defendants—five individuals and two corporations who worked on what they describe as an undercover journalism project to investigative whether Planned Parenthood and its affiliates illegally profited from the sale of fetal tissue. Some of the individual defendants used fake drivers licenses to gain access to Planned Parenthood conferences and facilities to make surreptitious recordings.

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