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1. News, Newport Beach, CA: Physicians for Informed Consent Successfully Obtains Federal Court Injunction Protecting Freedom of Speech Regarding COVID-19

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Pictured: Rick Jaffe, Esq. attorney for @picphysicians and @cachildrenshd

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@cachildrenshd 2. Federal judge bars enforcement of California's COVID-19 "misinformation" law on grounds the new law is unconstitutionally vague.
With lead litigator Richard Jaffe, Esq., Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), a nonprofit educational organization, succeeded this week…

@cachildrenshd 3. …in blocking the enforcement of AB 2098/Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2270 (2:22-cv-01980-WBS-AC).
The doctor-censorship law targeted supposed COVID-19 "misinformation" spoken to patients. The judge criticized the new law for its vagueness.

@cachildrenshd 4. …and granted the multiple plaintiffs' requests for preliminary injunction, thereby protecting all PIC members from enforcement of AB 2098—at least until the case, Hoang et al. v. Bonta, is finally decided.

@cachildrenshd 5. Senior Judge William B. Shubb of the Eastern District of California Court in Sacramento, in his preliminary injunction order, thoroughly dissected the meaning of AB 2098's definition of "misinformation" ("false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific…

@cachildrenshd 6..consensus contrary to the standard of care") and determined that it caused the statute to be "unconstitutionally vague." He wrote:
"Put simply, this provision is grammatically incoherent."
"The statute provides no means of understanding to what 'scientific consensus' refers"

@cachildrenshd 7. Dr. Miller shared her optimism: "We are grateful for the Court's decision and hopeful that soon all California physicians will be able to stop self-censoring and be able to communicate openly and honestly with their patients."

@cachildrenshd 8. …until the case is decided only PIC members and Children's Health Defense, California Chapter, members are protected by the preliminary injunction, as well as the physicians in the related Høeg et al. v. Newsom lawsuit…