The US Supreme Court declined to to hear an appeal from students who wanted to block Indiana University’s covid vaccine mandate, clearing the way for school officials to force students and faculty members to be vaccinated.
The case was the first challenge to a vaccine mandate during the coronavirus pandemic. The students filed the emergency appeal last week, asking the justices to block enforcement of the university’s mandate saying it violated their constitutional right to bodily integrity under the 14th Amendment.
RT reports: Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the emergency request to hear the case on Thursday, meaning the high court won’t overturn rulings by an Indiana district court and the US Court of Appeals in Chicago, which upheld the mandate. There were no dissenting opinions cited from other Supreme Court justices.
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The Indiana case marked the first legal challenge of a Covid-19 vaccine mandate to come before the Supreme Court. The decision may embolden other colleges and institutions that have considered requiring Covid-19 shots and comes at a time when a growing number of US businesses and schools are ordering such mandates.
Indiana University announced its vaccine order in May, affecting all students and faculty on campus. Eight students sued to block the mandate, saying it violated their right of bodily integrity and forced them to receive unwanted medical treatment. District and appellate court judges found that the university acted lawfully and in the legitimate interest of public health.
The students had argued that the mandate infringed their constitutional right to due process and alleged that risks associated with Covid-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits for healthy people in their age group. “Protection of others does not relieve our society from the central canon of medical ethics requiring voluntary and informed consent,” the lawsuit said.
The appellate court rejected the plaintiffs’ initial appeal, noting that they had other options, such as taking courses online, going to another school or applying for a medical or religious exemption. The court cited a 1905 case in which a Massachusetts mandate for a smallpox vaccine was upheld, at least partly on the basis that the government had a rational reason for ordering inoculations amid a health crisis.
Hundreds of US colleges and universities have imposed vaccine mandates, while some have waited to determine the legality of such orders. Still others have said their mandates are contingent on full FDA approval of one or more Covid-19 vaccines, inasmuch as the three jabs currently available in the US have received only emergency use authorization.
Thursday’s decision comes as a disappointment to conservatives who oppose vaccine mandates. Adding to the aggravation for some observers was the fact that the rejection was handed down by Barrett, the allegedly conservative justice who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump last fall.
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The “supreme court” has been compromised by the Left. Justice Scalia was “sacrificed” to insure compliance.
I have despised the Supreme Court for almost as many years as I have lived. It has been a chancre on the body politic for a long time, just as Thomas Jefferson feared it would be. When, in the 1960s I was critical of the liberal Warren court for its stretching the meaning of the constitution, I then soon realized, on reading a bit of history, how the conservative court of the 1920s was doing the same, but in the opposite direction.
Bucking fitch. Just another elite jesuit devils servant.
Let’s see, “It’s a private company and they can do what they want.” That’s always the fallback excuse when you don’t want to do your job. Amy, do your JOB or quit.
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I wish that everyone would understand common sense.
No doctor would ever, ever, ever mandate anything for everybody.
BECAUSE OF ALLERGIES
NO DOCTOR COULD MANDATE SO MUCH AS A PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH OR A SHOT OF PENICILLIN
BECAUSE IT WOULD KILL MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.‼
AND IT HAS‼
LOOK UP COVID-19 VACCINE ON
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Or
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