California's Medical Misinformation Law Struck Down

…”This Act is a blatant attempt to silence doctors whose views, though based on thorough scientific research, deviate from the government-approved ‘party line,'” said Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lawyer for the doctors, in a statement. “At no point has the State of California been able to articulate the line between permissible and impermissible speech.”

The doctors said in their lawsuit that the law gave them no way to know what was “contemporary scientific consensus,” and violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution…

…”This Act is a blatant attempt to silence doctors whose views, though based on thorough scientific research, deviate from the government-approved ‘party line,'” said Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lawyer for the doctors, in a statement. “At no point has the State of California been able to articulate the line between permissible and impermissible speech.”

The doctors said in their lawsuit that the law gave them no way to know what was “contemporary scientific consensus,” and violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution…

January 30, 2023

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Originally Published in TownHall