Legislation
CHD has had some important victories, and we believe we will see more this year:
- We won an injunction against CA’s new AB2098 law restricting physician speechregarding COVID, with attorney Rick Jaffe.
- CHD-CA/PERK-GROUP vs LAUSD – we prevailed in stopping the 1,000+ school districts in the state of California from requiring children to take the COVID vaccine in order to attend school. Defender Article
- CHD-CA/PERK-GROUP vs Peidmont School District – We prevailed as the judge ruled in our favor and the school settled the case. The school district will no longer bring back the mandate. Defender Article
We also have the following cases in process:
- August 2019: Facebook/Meta Platformsfor joint action with the government to censor dissent, with attorney Roger Teich. CHD sued Meta Platforms Inc., (Facebook) for censorship, colluding with the U.S. government, and more. The case was dismissed after a March 19, 2021 hearing, and CHD has since appealed; read more at CHD Litigation.
- CHD Sues Los Angeles Over ‘Smart City’ Plan Documents
On July 24, 2023, CHD sued the City of Los Angeles (LA) for failing to respond to CHD’s request for documents related to LA’s smart city initiatives. According to the complaint, key departments in the city government violated the California Public Records Act (CPRA) by failing to promptly respond to CHD’s request to produce electronic records related to smart city planning. While most of the city’s 20 departments involved in smart city planning provided the documents CHD requested, the Information Technology Agency, Bureau of Street Lighting, LA World Airports, Bureau of Street Services, Bureau of Engineering and the LA Police Department, which may have highly sensitive information regarding the smart city rollout, did not produce the requested documents.
Lawsuit to Stop California Law That Censors Doctors’ Speech (AB 2098)
Case Name: Hoang et al. v. Bonta et. al.
Children’s Health Defense is sponsoring a lawsuit brought on behalf of plaintiffs Dr. LeTrinh Hoang, Physicians for Informed Consent and Children’s Health Defense – California Chapteragainst California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California over a new law that subjects the state’s doctors to discipline for sharing “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19 with their patients.
Gardasil Injury Case
Case Name: Robi v. Merck
Gardasil vaccines can turn previously happy, healthy, popular, athletic and academic superstars into wheel-chair bound or bedridden victims with soul-crushing fatigue. Internal documents showed that Merck cherry-picked its own data to mislead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and doctors about Gardasil’s safety and efficacy. We aim to get justice for those impacted and to force Merck to stop defrauding the public.
Jury trial is set for May 28, 2024.
CHD also has a Federal Gardasil case against Merck in process.
