Federal Judge Blocks California Law Punishing Doctors for ‘COVID Misinformation’
January 26th, 2023Via: The Defender:
A federal judge in California on Wednesday granted Children’s Health Defense (CHD)-California Chapter’s request for a preliminary injunction to block a California law that would have allowed the state’s medical boards to punish doctors for spreading “COVID-19 misinformation.”
In his 30-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge William Shubb determined the defendants in the case — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Medical and Osteopathic Boards — provided “no evidence that ‘scientific consensus has any established technical meaning,” and that the law provides “no clarity” on the meaning of the word “misinformation.”
