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Doctor Resistance Mounts to California Law Restricting Advice to Patients on COVID

November 3, 2022
…The five plaintiffs counter that it is impossible for the law or the medical board to accurately define the “contemporary scientific consensus” about COVID as new strains emerge.Attorneys from the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance, a public interest law firm, are representing Drs. Tracy Hoeg, Ram Duriseti, Aaron Kheriaty, Pete Mazolewski and Azadeh Khatibi in…
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Doctors Say a California Law Targeting Clinicians Who Share COVID-19 'Misinformation' Is Unconstitutional

November 3, 2022
…But as the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) points out in a federal lawsuit it filed yesterday, Newsom’s signing statement does not alter the broad language of A.B. 2098, which will be enforced as written. The NCLA, which is representing five California physicians who object to the new law, argues that it violates the First Amendment by punishing doctors…
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Doctors Sue California for COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law That Enforces Amorphous ‘Consensus'

November 3, 2022
…The lawsuit against California AB 2098, which like the social media collusion lawsuit was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, says the board already had authority to sanction doctors who truly threaten patients by, for example, advising them to inject bleach to treat COVID…Read the full article
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Judges Keep Knocking SEC Gag Rule but Defendants Can’t Find a Way to Evade It

October 31, 2022
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which initiated both the Romeril and Novinger challenges to the SEC gag rule, is now trying a procedurally different tack. The group has returned to a Texas trial court in the Novinger case, filing a motion for a declaratory judgment that the SEC gag provision is unconstitutional. The SEC responded…
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Cyber Officials May Have to Testify About Alleged Social Media Collusion

October 25, 2022
…Plaintiffs hailed the decision from Doughty, who was nominated by Trump, as a victory that demonstrated the importance of their case. “I’m very pleased with it,” Jenin Younes, litigation counsel at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance that joined the case, told me. “High-ranking federal officials are generally shielded from having to give depositions. But…
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U.S. Government: Lesh Conviction for Illegal Snowmobiling ‘Straightforward’

October 25, 2022
…“Appellant, like all Americans, has a right to doctor photos and post them to social media for artistic purposes, to stir up controversy or for any reason at all,” said Lesh’s appeal, filed by attorney Jenin Yunes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance of Washington, D.C…Read the full article
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