A federal judge blocked a California law that allowed the state to punish doctors who shared alleged “misinformation” about COVID.
U.S. District Judge William Shubb ruled Wednesday that Assembly Bill 2098, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, was unconstitutional.
“Because the definition of misinformation ‘fails to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, [and] is so standardless that it authorizes or encourages seriously discriminatory enforcement,’ the provision is unconstitutionally vague,” Shubb wrote. “Accordingly, the court concludes that plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of their vagueness challenges.” Read more…