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Fits 35db loss. Expires NOW ONLY By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is being asked to block a plan by Indiana Univer- sity to require students and employees to get vac- cinated against COVID-19. the first time the high court has been asked to weigh in on a vaccine mandate and comes as some corporations, states and cities are also contemplating or have adopted vaccine require- ments for workers or even to dine indoors. The case is not the first time a coronavirus-related issue has been before the court. In rulings over the past year the conser- vative-dominated high court has largely backed religious groups who have challenged restrictions on indoor services during the cononavirus pandemic.
In the current case, however, a three-judge federal appeals court panel, including two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, was one of two lower courts to side with Indiana University and allow it to require the vaccinations. The plan an- nounced in May requires roughly 90,000 students and 40,000 employees on seven campuses to receive COVID-19 vaccinations for the fall semester. Students who comply will have their registration canceled and workers who will lose their jobs. The policy does have religious and medical exemptions, but exempt students must be tested twice a week for the disease. The school announced this week that for now, everyone, regard- less of vaccination status, must wear a mask indoors while on campus.
The vaccine mandate is being challenged by eight students who argue in court papers filed Friday that they have consti- tutional right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and of medical treatment choice in the context of a vaccination asking for an injunction from the high court barring the univer- sity from enforcing the mandate. Seven of the students qualify for a religious exemption. There is no deadline for the court to act, but the students are asking it to do so by Aug. 13. In July, an Indiana district court judge sided with the university in declining to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the vaccine mandate.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit voted 3-0 to uphold the decision earlier this week. Two of the three judges were appointed by Trump and the third by former President Ronald Reagan. The university initially was going to require students and employees to provide immunization documentation but after a backlash changed its policy to make providing proof optional. Students and employees now must simply attest to their vac- cination in an online form.
College officials across the country have strug- gled with whether to require vaccinations, with some schools mandating them and others ques- tioning whether they have legal authority to do so. Similar lawsuits against student vaccine require- ments have been filed in other states. Over the past two weeks, vaccine man- dates have become a particularly hot issue. On Friday, United Airlines announced it would be- come the first major U.S. airline to require vaccina- tion for workers.
Google, Facebook, Tyson Foods and Microsoft are among the other companies man- dating vaccines. Late last month, the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to re- quire vaccinations for its health workers. Presi- dent Joe Biden has since announced that federal workers will be required to sign forms attesting been vaccinated against the coronavirus or else comply with new rules on mandatory masking, weekly testing, distancing and more. Students ask to block college vaccine mandate supreme Court By Jeff amy The Associated Press MCDONOUGH, Ga. As Tussahaw Elemen- tary opened this week for a new school year, teary-eyed mothers led in kindergartners dwarfed by backpacks and buses dropped off fifth graders looking forward to ruling their school.
The big- gest clue to the lingering COVID-19 crisis was the masks worn by students and teachers but not all of them. Georgia, like most states, is leaving it up to local schools to decide whether to require face coverings. And dent Henry County, like many districts worn out by months of conflict over masks, has decided not to insist on them. Instead, they are Many parents Wednesday in this suburb south of Atlanta had mixed feelings about the policy. Some kept their children home in disagreement with it.
Others sent their youngsters to class with face coverings. Shatavia Dorsey, the mother of a kindergartner and a fifth grader, said her children are going to wear their masks at school regardless of the rules. not vacci- nated because too young, and I know if someone else is carrying it said Dorsey, who is doubtful about the school ability to main- tain in-person instruction amid rising infections. With the delta variant spreading rapidly, the Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics have advised in recent weeks that everyone in schools wear masks in communities with substan- tial or high transmission. Educators have had to contend with strong resistance to masks from some parents and political leaders.
Some consider mask rules an intrusion on authority to make decisions about their health. California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington state intend to require masks for all students and teachers regardless of vaccination status. At the other end of the spectrum, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Caro- lina, Texas and Utah have banned mask requirements in public schools. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said Thursday the decision of whether to wear masks in school should be made by parents, adding: are the harmful effects of putting a kindergartener in a mask for seven hours? Have they talked about the emotional, the academic, the physiological? Why CDC studying Outbreaks that have hit schools at the very start of the year have added to calls for more mask requirements.
In Marion, Arkansas, over 800 students and staff members have been quarantined because of exposure since classes began last week in the district. Marion Superintendent Glen Fenter urged law- makers to overturn the state law banning masks, warning that a could lie ahead. And Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson expressed regret over signing the ban in the first place and asked that it be lifted. But the GOP-controlled Legislature left it in place Friday.
Later in the day, an Ar- kansas judge blocked the state from enforcing the ban until further notice. In yet another fight over the issue Friday, the Florida Board of Educa- tion applied pressure to discourage schools from making masks manda- tory. The board said it will issue tuition vouchers so that parents who object to mask requirements can send their children to private school. The money would be taken out of public funding. From the beginning of the pandemic to the peak of infections in January, CDC data showed chil- dren 15 and under had the lowest infection rates.
Now, though, school-age children have infection rates higher than adults 50 and older. Schools reopen with masks optional in many US classrooms The AssociATed Press Henry County Board of Education Chair Holly Cobb, left, talks to students at Tussahaw Elementary school on Wednesday in Mc- Donough, Ga. Schools have begun reopening in the U.S. with most states leaving it up to local schools to decide whether to require masks..
