Judge Rules Religious Exemptions Must Be Allowed in Mississippi for Children’s Vaccine Requirements in Public Schools
A federal judge has ruled Mississippi must now provide religious exemptions to the state’s strict childhood vaccine requirements to be enrolled in public schools.
U.S. District Judge Halil Suleyman Ozerden granted a preliminary injunction on Monday following an evidentiary hearing and handed down a full order on Tuesday.
Several families filed the lawsuit last fall arguing that the health policy refusing religious exemptions violates their constitutional rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
Mississippi is one of six states without a religious exemption for students to attend public school, the others being California, Connecticut, Maine, New York, and West Virginia….