Updated November 26, 2022
San Diego Union Tribune on November 23, 2022 reported, “A California appeals court ruled against the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 student vaccine mandate, which has been on pause for the last half-year.
The 4th District Court of Appeal agreed Tuesday with a lower court’s ruling from December that school districts cannot impose their own vaccine requirements on students and that only the state can require a vaccine for school attendance.
“This is a great win for children and the rule of law and ensures consistency statewide,” said Lee Andelin, attorney for Let Them Choose, an offshoot of anti-mask-mandate group Let Them Breathe that sued San Diego Unified over its student COVID-19 vaccine mandate last year”.
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December 1, 2021
A ruling from a lawsuit filed in October for a 16-year-old Scripps Ranch High School Junior in the San Diego Unified School District halts the mandate pending appeal. The suit was filed for religious discrimination resulting from SDUSD mandate that all students 16 years or older require Covid vaccination to attend classes. The case involved religious discrimination regarding the mandate and were were reviewed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The attorneys from the Thomas More Society attorneys filed the suit against SDUSD and their board of education on behalf of the 16-year-old high school student athlete and her parents.
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