Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight
The public health establishment should take stock of itself and commit to better targeted and clearly justified employment of legal force.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts
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The Supreme Court seems poised to say that the existence of a secular medical exemption to vaccine mandates means a state must offer a religious exemption.
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Read more: Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases
Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.
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Read more: Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine
A doctrine that essentially allows courts to strike down willy-nilly policies that they deem “major” undermines the federal government’s capacity to govern.
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Read more: Can Schools Require the COVID-19 Vaccine? Education, Equity, and the Courts Can Schools Require the COVID-19 Vaccine? Education, Equity, and the Courts
Given the potential legal challenges policymakers may face, legislation to remedy the COVID-19 educational crisis must be carefully drafted.
