Posted on 10/04/2022 6:21:12 PM PDT by NeverCheney
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 4, 2022) — Two doctors have filed the first federal lawsuit to stop a new California law that shuts down doctors’ free speech rights by restricting the medical advice they can give patients regarding COVID-19. The law, signed on Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom, authorizes the Medical Board of California to pursue professional sanctions and even license revocation against doctors who share information about COVID-19 that challenges the “scientific consensus.”
Mark McDonald, MD, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, and Jeff Barke, MD, an Orange County primary care physician, are represented by the Liberty Justice Center, a national nonprofit law firm dedicated to protecting Americans’ constitutional rights. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the Medical Board of California and Attorney General of California. The plaintiffs also filed papers seeking a preliminary injunction to protect their free speech rights as the case unfolds.
Daniel Suhr, managing attorney at the Liberty Justice Center, said, “We rely on our doctors to give us their best medical advice, yet the State of California is stopping doctors from doing just that. That’s not just wrong, it’s unconstitutional. Doctors enjoy the same free speech rights as other Americans. The State of California cannot define a so-called scientific consensus on an issue and then punish anyone who dares challenge it.”
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Good for these docs.
Thousands more should join in.
Godspeed.
Lemme tell them how it ends. Ninth Circuit-whatever liberal government wants, it’s ok and you must obey. The Supreme Court? Maybe they hear it, if Roberts isn’t hiding in his chambers longing to be loved by the DC set.
The court should make Newsom spring for their legal costs - out of his own pocket. He can afford it. I think wine bar stayed open during Covid, isn’t that right?
Nice, however much easier for the docs to abandon the once-golden state and move to the “red” state of their choice.
This law is clearly unconstitutional.
I told my doc that they need to start fighting back. Believe it or not, my doc had to ask me if he could discuss my lab results with me. Apparently that’s a new California requirement.
“Uh, yeah, like that’s why I had the labs done in the first place.”
Quote :”This law is clearly unconstitutional.”
So was Obamacare.
Liberal Judges just serve to rubber-stamp whatever the left wing totalitarian state wants to do. All else? Why, its a threat to democracy.
Haven’t read the article but it seems appropriate to let people know this. One of our clients is a medical doctor. He got into trouble with the Medical Board of our state in late 2020 or early 2021 before the “vaccines” were invented (I don’t have the document in front of me so this is my best guess) and one of the accusations against him was that he was recommending his friends and patients take supplemental Vitamin D. This is not something someone told me. I’ve seen the accusation.
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