California recently empowered the state medical board to investigate and discipline doctors who share information that the state deems to be medical "misinformation" or "disinformation" as it concerns Covid and Covid vaccines. What does it mean? Who decides what counts as medical "misinformation" or "disinformation"? How quickly can a standard of medical care emerge about a novel virus – and an even more novel vaccine – and how much may the state levy its police power to enforce it?
(Quick anecdote about the "standard of care" and "misinformation": At the time of President James Garfield's death, Joseph Lister's germ theory, not yet accepted by the medical community, was considered what we now might call "misinformation." And so President Garfield, his doctor having repeatedly plunged dirty fingers into his wound searching for Charles Guiteau's bullet – fully consistent with the standard of care – died of sepsis.)
Constitutional litigator Alan Gura will discuss current litigation over state and Big Tech actions against doctors who purportedly give “misinformation” or "disinformation."
When: Tuesday, February 28, 11:30 a.m. (registration), 12:00 p.m. (lunch)
Where:
First Floor Conference Room, 2040 Main Street, 1st Floor, Irvine, CA.
Please get your parking ticket validated in the lobby before or after
entering the venue.
Cost: $30/members, $35/non-members,
$10/students, for lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit (the Federalist
Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).
RSVP and Pay: To RSVP and pay by credit card, please register at the Federalist Society site here.
To
pay by cash or check at the door, please send an RSVP to Tim Kowal at
OCFedSocPresident@gmail.com and make checks payable to “The Federalist
Society.”
About Alan Gura:
Alan Gura dedicates his law practice to Supreme Court, appellate and strategic litigation. Mr. Gura has argued and won landmark constitutional cases before the United States Supreme Court. He has also argued cases before ten federal courts of appeals and numerous federal district courts throughout the country. Mr. Gura regularly lectures and debates at law schools and continuing legal education seminars about legal issues of current interest. Mr. Gura also teaches strategic litigation as an adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and is proud to have litigated the demise of various unconstitutional statutes and ordinances.
Mr. Gura has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California. He has also practiced as an associate with the Washington offices of Sidley Austin. Gura began his career clerking for U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Mr. Gura earned his J.D. at Georgetown (1995) and his B.A. at Cornell University (1992). He is an active member in good standing of the Virginia, District of Columbia, and California Bars, the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, and various federal appellate and district court bars.
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