Mealey's (January 26, 2023, 2:16 PM EST) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In related lawsuits against California Gov. Gavin Newsom and several other state officials brought by California physicians, a physician advocacy group and a patient advocacy group claiming that a state statute allowing medical boards to discipline physicians for disseminating misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutionally vague, a California federal judge on Jan. 25 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, concluding that the definition of “misinformation” in the statute did not adequately provide fair notice as to what was prohibited and lacked standards such that it authorized or encouraged discriminatory enforcement....