Nonsense': Judge halts California law that punishes doctors for 'misinformation'
The licensed California physicians had argued that the COVID misinformation law violated their constitutional rights.
Afederal judge has halted California from implementing a law allows medical professionals to be punished for giving patients information about COVID-19 that is "contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus."
U.S. District Judge William Shubb on Wednesday ruled that the "consensus" on COVID is so vague and ill-defined that the physician plaintiffs are "unable to determine if their intended conduct contradicts the scientific consensus, and accordingly 'what is prohibited by the law.'"
The judge granted preliminary injunction to the five plaintiffs, who were represented by the non-profit legal group the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
"COVID-19 [is] a disease that scientists have only been studying for a few years, and about which scientific conclusions have been hotly contested. COVID-19 is a quickly evolving area of science that in many aspects eludes consensus," Shubb stated.
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