Doctors were essentially prevented from giving their patients information and advice that was outside of the official narrative, especially regarding the danger of the COVID injections. A lawyer representing doctors said that California repealed the unconstitutional law rather than suffer further humiliation in federal court. The law firm said that the law violated the doctors' First Amendment rights to free speech and their 14th Amendment rights to due process of law.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to repeal a Democrat-backed initiative that guided how medical professionals could talk about the coronavirus to avoid what one critic called "humiliation" in court.