LJC In The News
‘Not the Way the Constitution Works’: Medical, Science Advocacy Groups Want SCOTUS to Protect Regulatory State’s Power
(The Daily Caller)—Medical, environmental and scientific advocacy groups are urging the Supreme Court to protect the power of regulatory agencies, arguing that agency experts do a better job interpreting Congress’ policy goals than the courts. Groups warned in friend-of-the-court briefs that the Supreme Court could limit agencies’ ability to use...
School District Vows to Continue Fight After CA Judge Blocks Parental Notification Policy: ‘Battle Not Over’
(Fox News)—Portions of a Southern California school district’s parental notification policy will remain blocked, after a judge granted a preliminary injunction to the state of California to stop the measure the state says discriminates against LGBTQ students. Chino Valley Unified School District passed the policy in July. Part of the...
Whatever Happened to Kids’ Innocence—and Parental Rights?
In Maryland, a group seeks to have sexually explicit books removed from school libraries and is being portrayed as enemies of speech and enlightenment. Meanwhile, in California, parents believe they should be informed if their child shows signs of gender confusion while at school—an argument with which the state disagrees....
CA Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Parental Notification Policy for Gender Changes
(The Center Square) – Judge Michael Sachs of the Superior Court of California partially upheld and partially blocked parts of Chino Valley Unified School District’s controversial gender change notification policy that has drawn attention from state leaders as the latest battleground in the culture war. Sachs issued an injunction against...
Legal Showdown This Week Over Chino Valley’s Parental Notification Policy
(California Family Council)—In a case that has sparked intense debate surrounding parental rights, student privacy, and whether public schools can keep secrets from parents, the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, is set to become the stage for a legal showdown this Thursday, October 19. Judge Michael Sachs...
California Quietly Repeals Restrictions on Doctors’ COVID-19 Advice
(Reason)—California legislators last month quietly repealed a 2022 law that authorized disciplinary action against doctors, including loss of their medical licenses, when they share COVID-19 “misinformation” with their patients. The law, A.B. 2098, defined that ambiguous and highly contested category of speech as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary...
Opinion: In Chino Valley Case, Courts Should Choose Parents Rights over State Supremacy
(The Orange County Register)—Who has the right to decide what’s in the best interests of children: their parents or the state? That’s the issue at the heart of a lawsuit California Attorney General Rob Bonta has brought against the Chino Valley Unified School District. In July, the District’s board adopted...
Two Dueling Court Rulings on Parental Notification in California. What Happens Next?
(Daily Signal)—A Southern California school district requires teachers and staff to notify parents when their children say they have been bullied, are considering self-harm, or decide to publicly identify as a gender opposite their biological sex at school. But California’s Democratic attorney general, Rob Bonta, sued the district to block...
California Scraps 2022 Law Punishing Doctors Who Dissent from COVID Consensus
(The Center Square)—California quietly repealed a law making a doctor spreading state-determined COVID-19 misinformation guilty of unprofessional conduct that could cost a doctor his or her medical license. AB 2098, signed into law in 2022, allows the Medical Board of California to revoke the license of doctors who share any...
California Repeals COVID Misinformation Law, Bowing to Legal Pressure
(The Washington Times)—California has repealed a misinformation law that restricted the advice doctors could give patients about COVID-19, bowing to mounting legal pressure. The legislation was signed into law in September 2022 and took effect in January. It tried to define COVID disinformation as “unprofessional conduct” and empower the Medical...
State Stops Squelching Doctors’ Rights
(American Family News)—Under Assembly Bill 2098, a doctor could lose his or her medical license for giving patients so-called “misinformation” about COVID, which the measure defines as anything that goes against the contemporary scientific consensus. In other words, a single instance of a doctor telling a patient a single piece...
Opinion: Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution Should Not Discriminate Against Private Schools, Attorney Says
(Clarion Ledger)—In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, much has been discussed about the tremendous learning loss that students all across the country experienced. When schools closed their doors and navigated the uncharted waters of virtual learning, it negatively impacted the ability of students to connect with their peers, their...
Newsom Repeals California Law Prohibiting Doctors from Sharing Unapproved Covid Information
(National Review)—California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill repealing a law prohibiting physicians from sharing information with their patients that contradicts the prevailing scientific sentiment on Covid-19. The initial law, which Newsom signed in September 2022, violated doctors’ First Amendment rights to free speech and Fourteenth Amendment rights...
California Quietly Repeals Covid ‘Misinfo’ Law that Targeted Doctors’ Speech Rights
(Northern California Record)—Facing the risk of a stinging loss before a federal appeals panel, California’s Democrat-dominated legislature has repealed a law that would have allowed the state to strip the medical licenses of any doctors who discussed information about Covid that ran counter to what the state believed to be...
Wide-Ranging Amicus Briefs in Moore v. U.S. Show Dangers of Taxing Unrealized Income
(Philanthropy Roundtable)—As we’ve discussed here before, the Supreme Court is considering a case with implications for future wealth tax proposals. We know that taxing assets is a net negative for philanthropy and the vibrant charitable sector it supports, so the Roundtable is closely following Moore v. United States. We’ve recently...