Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
A doctor's lawsuit against Maine's medical board can proceed, a federal judge has ruled.
An order from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine that Dr. Meryl Nass undergo a psychological evaluation for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 was "based on no evidence or process," including no probable cause, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker said in an Aug. 20 decision.
"In judicial proceedings, at a minimum probable cause findings ordinarily are required to justify pretrial impositions. In this case, as alleged, the Board dispensed with preliminary proceedings altogether," Walker wrote.
The process appeared to have "lacked any safeguards to protect against agency zeal and resembled investigatory action imposed, somewhat ironically, in the absence of evidence rather than the initiation of an impartial, sober, thoughtful judicial process designed to assess the truth of facts to arrive at the existence of probable cause to justify such a sanction," he also said.
The board did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.
"I am happy to report that I will eagerly move forward with the legal case to clear my name and defend the free speech right of medical practitioners to tell the truth to their patients, especially if it goes against government or medical
