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Rick’s Second 2024 Covid Misinformation Litigation Update, and there is plenty to Talk About

Rick’s Second 2024 Covid Misinformation Litigation Update, and there is plenty to Talk About

So here is what’s going on, some good, but some not so good, but even the not so good presents some opportunities. To recap, on January 2nd, we filed Kory v. Bonta, which takes the battle against the Cali. medical boards to the heartland of their powers, those being the power that no man (or woman) shall challenge, the STANDARD OF CARE. The point of Kory is that there is no more of a legitimate Covid standard of care than…

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Happy New Year Brave “Covid Misinformation” Warriors; and Not To Bury the Lead, but stay with me because you will like it, I promise!

Happy New Year Brave “Covid Misinformation” Warriors; and Not To Bury the Lead, but stay with me because you will like it, I promise!

It is Wednesday January 3, 2024. Since 2022, I have been obsessed with “Covid misinformation”. I find it deeply disturbing considering how wrong public health authorities have been since the beginning. There is evidence suggesting that the authorities have knowingly mislead the public about the professed ability of the vaccines to prevent infection and transmission, which was the basis of the mandate, and which until the Covid vaccines, was the whole point of a vaccine, and not only the point…

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The Next Cali Covid Misinformation Battle has Begun: Buckle up!

The Next Cali Covid Misinformation Battle has Begun: Buckle up!

As all Cali. First Amendment lovers know, on Saturday, September 30th, Governor Newsom signed SB 815 which repealed the physician covid misinformation law, AB 2098, enacted as Section 2270 of the Business and Professions Code. On Monday morning, October 2nd, we asked our judge in Bonta v. Hoang (one of two related cases in which Judge William B. Schubb granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of AB2098) to change course and stop the medical boards from trying to censor physicians…

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Do Covid Patients Have the Right to Take Non Standard of Care Treatments Like Ivermectin and HCQ?

Do Covid Patients Have the Right to Take Non Standard of Care Treatments Like Ivermectin and HCQ?

A seemingly simple question is actually pretty complicated. Let me start with a few basic general principles of FDA drug and state law. First, after a drug is approved for marketing under an NDA (New Drug Application), the drug manufacturer can only advertise its FDA-approved labeled indication. However, as far as federal law goes, physicians can prescribe almost any drug for any purpose, (subject to state law standard of care issues which I will talk about in a bit). This…

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