U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, who had already issued a preliminary injunction last September, made her decision permanent late Friday when she ruled in favor of groups of physicians who asserted that the law violated their free speech rights. She said the law was so "vague" that it violated the First Amendment rights of doctors, noting that the legislation's privacy provisions "fail to provide any standards for practitioners to follow."
Obvioously because all Doctors are Firearms experts.. yeah right."What is curious about this law -- and what makes it different from so many other laws involving practitioners' speech -- is that it aims to restrict a practitioner's ability to provide truthful, non-misleading information to a patient, whether relevant or not at the time of the consult with the patient," Cooke wrote, citing the benefit of such "preventive medicine."
"common sense{".. the battle cry of the anti-gunner, as in "common Sense gun laws""We're acting out of common sense, and this is a common sense issue," said Wollschlaeger, a past president of the Dade County Medical Association. "My fear is the state will appeal and keeping wasting money to fight windmills. This is an ideologically driven, politically motivated vendetta by the NRA (National Rifle Association) that has to stop."
The NRA tried to intervene in the doctors' lawsuit. But the judge denied the lobbying group's request, saying the state could adequately defend itself. Lawyers for the Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence were also involved in the case, representing the doctors' side.
"Guns in the home are a proven deadly risk," Dan Gross, president of the Brady Center, said in a written statement. "Guns kill eight children every day. The government cannot tell us or our doctors that we are prohibited from discussing the deadly risks posed by guns."
The NRA is blocked form assisting in the Case, but the Brady group is allowed.. no bias from the judge there....