The lawsuits against new Florida Gov. Rick Scott keep piling up.
On June 6 attorneys with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the law firms Ropes & Gray LLP and Astigarraga Davis filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida court against HB 155, a new law that has earned the nickname "Docs versus Glocks."
Florida's HB 155 subjects health care providers to possible sanctions, including fines and loss of their license, if they discuss or record information in a patient's chart about firearm safety that a medical board later determines was not "relevant" or was "unnecessarily harassing."
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