Federal Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking California COVID 'Misinformation' Law

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a controversial law allowing state medical boards to punish physicians for expressing views on COVID-19 to patients that depart from scientific consensus.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday against a controversial law in California that allows the state’s medical boards to discipline physicians who “disseminate” information regarding COVID-19 that departs from the “contemporary scientific consensus.”

In his ruling, Senior Judge William B. Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the E…