First Amendment – California Globe

Federal Judge Enjoins California Medical Boards from Punishing Doctors for Rejecting the Government’s COVID Narrative

August 7, 2026 10:43 amAugust 7, 2026 10:43 am

Some good news out of California this week. On August 5, U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb of the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in Kory v. Bonta, barring California’s medical licensing boards from investigating, prosecuting or...

EXCLUSIVE: Physicians Win Covid-Era Injunction: ‘US Government Will Never Get to Tell Doctors What They Can Say Anymore’

August 7, 2026 8:13 amAugust 9, 2026 7:39 am

California passed Assembly Bill 2098 in 2022 to punish doctors for spreading “Covid misinformation.” That horrible period of time seems like many years ago, but the Orwellian after effects have lingered. AB 2098, authored by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), punished physicians and...

Forced Speech in Wine Country

June 30, 2026 11:30 amJune 30, 2026 11:31 am

On a quiet stretch of California’s Central Coast, where small wineries compete not through scale but through identity, we built Flying Goat Cellars the old fashioned way—one bottle, one customer, and one relationship at a time. In a market defined...

PLF Lawsuit: Can the Government Force Private Citizens to Operate a Racial Classification Scheme?

June 4, 2026 2:30 pmJune 4, 2026 2:31 pm

In a federal lawsuit filed last week, the Pacific Legal Foundation is representing a Colorado venture capital fund challenging a 2023 California law that requires venture capital funds to report to the state the race and gender and even sexual...

Life Coach Sues California Over Right to Speak With Clients

June 4, 2026 12:26 pmJune 4, 2026 12:58 pm

A California life coach filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the State’s attempts to prosecute her for talking about mental health without a psychology license. Anna Runkle argues that California is violating the First Amendment by requiring her to have...

UCLA Law School Threatening to Punish Federalist Society Members if They Identify Student Protesters at Recent Event

June 1, 2026 6:00 amJune 1, 2026 6:01 am

UCLA Law School is under fire from U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and a free speech organization for threatening to punish Federalist Society members if they identify the students who disrupted their campus event last month with the Department of...

Congressional Candidate Turns Her Back on the American Flag

May 24, 2026 9:51 amMay 24, 2026 10:22 am

Mai Vang is a Sacramento City Councilwoman, and a California congressional candidate for California’s 7th Congressional District. Mai Vang also refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and turns her back on the U.S. flag during public meetings. Don’t be...