(March 8, 2024, 9:45 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated the decision of a California federal court denying a preliminary injunction sought by physicians to prevent the enforcement of a California medical professional COVID-19 misinformation statute that had since been repealed, remanding the case along with a similar case consolidated with the appeal, with instructions to dismiss both cases as moot....