In other words, it's a facile legal argument that they wouldn't have much enthusiasm for if it were applied, say, to a requirement that doctors must provide safety information to those keeping guns in their homes.
In its ruling, the Fourth Circuit determined that the law prohibits a physician’s right to free speech by mandating what conversations doctors are required to have with their patients
This is simply a preposterous rationale.
By law, employers must post the wage law in a format approved by the Department of Labor in their break rooms or other publicly available locations.
How does this not infringe on an employers free speech rights, by dictating what he is required to tell his employees?
Fair point. But to make it even more ridiculous, any such discussion had between doctor and patient would be subject to confidentiality privilege to begin with and the spate of HIPPA laws.
While I applaud the intent, this was just dumb.