Dr. Richard Fox Discusses Stopping School Shots Lawsuit

Attorney and pediatrician Dr. Richard Fox filed a stop the school shots lawsuit against the State of California, the United States public health agency, a Contra Costa County and a Santa Clara County school district.

The seven defendants named in Dr. Fox’s complaint are State Public Health Officer/California Department of Public Health Director Dr. Tomás Aragón; California Department of Education/State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond; Medical Board of California Executive Director Reji Varghese; California Attorney General Rob Bonta; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen; Brentwood Union School District Superintendent Dana Eaton; and Gilroy Unified School District Superintendent Anisha Munshi.

Dr. Fox is representing Brave and Free Santa Cruz, a freedom advocacy organization; six unnamed minor plaintiffs and their parents; plus Dr. Douglas Hulstedt, a Monterey pediatrician.

In the complaint Dr. Fox asserts that the state’s school immunization requirements are unconstitutional under the First (freedom of speech) and Fourteenth (protects rights of citizens and limits power of states) Amendments.

The complaint also asserts that special education students—those with Individualized Educational Plans—should be legally exempt from California’s immunization requirements, under already existing federal and state law.

Furthermore, the complaint asserts California doctors should be protected from losing their medical licenses for telling the truth about the dangers of California’s required immunizations. Therefore Dr. Hulstedt, who had his medical license revoked for not going along with those requirements, should have his medical license reinstated.

After reading and analyzing Dr. Fox’s lawsuit I assert that Paragraph 315 is the cornerstone of this complaint.

That graph states: “Under our Declaration of Independence, our government ‘derives [its] just powers from the consent of the governed.’ This only works when that consent is informed consent, both as to public affairs as well as personal affairs, such as medical care. Denial of informed consent for medical care is an infringement of both our First Amendment right to speak and hear freely and our Fourteenth Amendment right to give or withhold consent for medical treatment.”

The text of the complaint can be read on the Stop the School Shots website.

In my brief impromptu interview with Dr. Fox he discusses more about the 154-page complaint, filed on August 26, 2024 with the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California.