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A federal district court judge has blocked another effort by 11 employees of the Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority to be exempt from the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine ...
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. The Court's decision articulated the view that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the police power of the state.
National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 595 U.S. ___ (2022), is a Supreme Court of the United States case before the Court on an application for a stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's COVID-19 vaccination or test mandate.
Feb. 17—MANCHESTER — By the slimmest of margins, the House of Representatives voted to let workers at state-owned health care centers to be exempt from a vaccine mandate by claiming ...
Health experts Wednesday praised bills that would nix the religion exemption for vaccinations as they warned about the rise of preventable diseases. State lawmakers target religious exemption for ...
Students ineligible for an exemption would either need to be vaccinated, or would be excluded from the university, while students who received exemptions would need to wear masks, undergo periodic testing for COVID-19, and engage in certain social distancing activities. Eight students filed a lawsuit objecting to this requirement.
Although the dispute did not involve a vaccination mandate, the Court, citing the 1905 case Jacobson v. Massachusetts, described vaccination as an example of a fundamental police power justifying the outcome in Prince. For this reason, Prince has at times also been cited by courts upholding the constitutionality of vaccination mandates. [1]
Dozens of state troopers are turning in their resignations over the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, one police organization in Massachusetts said.