California Supreme Court

In a hearing before the California Supreme Court, Justices appeared unconvinced that the state Medical Board should be barred from consulting the state’s prescription drug database in order to discipline drug-dealing and over-prescribing doctors.
 
At issue is the unusual claim that doctors can assert their patients’ privacy rights in order to insulate themselves from disciplinary procedures which are designed to protect patients from substandard care.
 

I woke up this morning to a US Supreme Court decision that rewrote the traditional balance of power between California courts and federal power.  

Until today, California courts had been the final word on the “laws of your state,”  in other words what California law said on matters of contracts and contract interpretation specifically citing California law.