Rutgers COVID-19 Shot Mandate Remains After Court Rules ‘No Fundamental Right to Refuse Vaccination’

Published on February 20, 2024

A landmark court ruling upheld that students of Rutgers University have no right to refuse the COVID-19 shot. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of students who raised constitutional challenges against the school’s policy mandating that all students and employees be required to take the COVID-19 shot. “Rutgers had to decide in real time, on a changing landscape of executive pronouncements and medical judgments, how to sustain its educational mission while protecting the safety of its student body,” read the majority judgment. “Students had to choose whether to vaccinate and resume in-person or to decline and proceed masked (for exempt students) or remotely or elsewhere (for non-exempt students). None of these options were ideal, and no doubt they created hardship for many.”...

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