( March 5, 2025, 9:00 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Physician advocacy groups and affiliated physicians have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision affirming a California federal court denial of a preliminary injunction that was sought to prevent enforcement of a California statute that regulates professional conduct and provides for discipline of physicians who deviate from standards of care because it could be used to sanction physicians based on their COVID-19 viewpoint in violation of the First Amendment....