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| − | #REDIRECT [[Covid vaccine mandate cases]]
| + | {{See also|Covid vaccine mandate cases}} |
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| | + | U.S. Supreme Court: |
| | + | *Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 25 S. Ct. 358, 49 L. Ed. 643 (1905); |
| | + | *Zucht v. King, 260 U.S. 174, 175-77, 43 S. Ct. 24, 67 L. Ed. 194, 20 Ohio L. Rep. 452 (1922) ("[I]t is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination.") |
| | + | *Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166-67, 64 S. Ct. 438, 88 L. Ed. 645 (1944) ("The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death.") |
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| | + | Rational basis review, often rejecting Free Exercise challenges to mandatory vaccination laws: |
| | + | *Miller v. McDonald, No. 24-681, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 4839, 2025 WL 665102, at *8 (2d Cir. Mar. 3, 2025) |
| | + | *We The Patriots USA, Inc. v. Conn. Off. of Early Childhood Dev., 76 F.4th 130, 156 (2d Cir. 2023), cert. denied 144 S. Ct. 2682, 219 L. Ed. 2d 1298 (2024); We The Patriots USA, Inc. v. Hochul, 17 F.4th 266, 290 (2d Cir.) ("Hochul") (per curiam), opinion clarified, 17 F.4th 368 (2d Cir. 2021), cert. denied sub nom. Dr. A v. Hochul, 142 S. Ct. 2569, 213 L. Ed. 2d 1126 (2022) |
| | + | *Doe, 19 F.4th at 1177-80; Whitlow v. California, 203 F. Supp. 3d 1079, 1086-87 (S.D. Cal. 2016) (denying motion for preliminary injunction against SB 277 and concluding no likelihood of success on the merits for a Free Exercise claim). |
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| | + | Courts have held that religious exemptions to vaccine mandates go beyond what the Constitution requires.: |
| | + | *Phillips v. City of New York, 775 F.3d 538, 543 (2d Cir. 2015); |
| | + | *Whitlow, 203 F. Supp. 3d at 1084 ("[I]t is clear that the Constitution does not require the provision of a religious exemption to vaccination requirements, much less a [personal belief exemption]."). |
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