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Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites - KSBY San Luis Obispo News

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(Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Photo by: Damian Dovarganes/AP FILE - A driver in his convertible cruises past a small group of anti-COVID-19 vaccine protesters at Elysian Park, outside the Dodger Stadium vaccination mass center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vacation sites. But U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd's ruling Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California’s new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites. But U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd's ruling Saturday left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech.

The law that took effect Oct. 8 makes it illegal to come within 30 feet of someone at a vaccination site “for the purpose of obstructing, injuring, harassing, intimidating, or interfering with that person.”

The judge says the 30-foot limit in the law's definition of harassing is too restrictive, so he's barring the state from enforcing that portion of the law.

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