Legality of Vaccine Mandates

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-covid-vaccine-mandate-indiana/2021/08/12/a2dcc2d2-fbac-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

This one concerns Indiana University. The SCOTUS refused tho take up the case where a group of students tried to challenge the university’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah this was expected. At least by me.

The IU rule wasn’t a strict mandate. Students could mask up and test weekly if they couldn’t show proof of vaccination.

So all their hyperbole about being forced to take a vaccine fell on deaf ears.

[Copper]

Being forced to wear a mask is probably worse than being forced to get the vaccine.

Unless, of course, the vaccine kills you.

[George K]

Actually, it wasn't SCOTUS, but Justice Barrett:

Barrett got to rule solo on this one because she’s the “circuit justice” for the Seventh Circuit, which encompasses Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. (Each justice on the Court is assigned at least one circuit.) A circuit justice who receives an emergency appeal can either rule on it herself or refer it for consideration by the entire Court. What made this one an emergency is the looming start of the school year. Classes at Indiana University begin in 11 days so the student plaintiffs in the case needed to know quickly whether they had a right to attend classes in person despite being unvaccinated.