SAN FRANCISCO — Anti-abortion activists will try to convince a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that a district court judge violated their First Amendment rights by blocking the release of videos they allege reveal schemes to profit from selling fetal organs.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III of the Northern District of California in February barred the Center for Medical Progress from releasing hundreds of hours of video footage that its activists recorded surreptitiously after infiltrating annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation, a provider organization, in 2014 and 2015.

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