The Beacon | Kansas City covered a Missouri judge’s decision to temporarily stop a law that forbids Missouri pharmacists from discussing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine with their patients.
A St. Louis pharmacist filed a lawsuit the next month to stop the law. Ashley Stock sued members of the state pharmacy board, arguing that the law violated her First Amendment rights and should not be enforced.The guidance does not give any indication that a federal judge could decide to strike it from the state statute. It also doesn’t acknowledge the court injunction that’s at least temporarily nullified the change.
Besides that, said Adam E. Schulman, the Virginia lawyer representing Stock, board guidance doesn’t hold the same weight as law.
“They’re trying to get the judge to change his mind,” Schulman said. “But (guidance) doesn’t change what is on the books.”
Read more in The Beacon | Kansas City.