No. 21-958

A. A. v. M. A.

Lower Court: New Jersey
Docketed: 2021-12-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule free-speech freedom-of-religion medical-exemption religious-exemption sincerity-test vaccination-mandate
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-03-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner's fundamental right to freedom of religion, and exemption from vaccination, was violated when the trial Court applied a 'sincerity' test to Petitioner's religious beliefs

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED It is of national importance for this Court to determine if the sincerity of people’s religious objection to vaccination should be tested and, if so, to define the level and manner of sincerity “testing” of a person’s religious beliefs asserted in their religious exemption to vaccination. In the present case, the State Courts’ rulings involved an interpretation or application of the U.S. Constitution, which was either in error, or not sufficiently respected. This trial occurred during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and prior to the development of the Covid-19 vaccine; however, the constitutional question of the sincerity of people’s religious exemptions has dramatically expanded into society’s employment sector, within families (between divorced and married parents), and anticipated to be within the public school system, imminently. Thus, Petitioner poses the following questions to this Court: Whether Petitioner’s fundamental right to freedom of religion, and exemption from vaccination, was violated when the trial Court applied a “sincerity” test to Petitioner’s religious beliefs, and did so, after the close of testimony pursuant to New Jersey Rule of Evidence 512? Whether the trial Court erred in ignoring Petitioner’s medical exemption, which was testified to and authored by her medical vaccine safety expert at trial?

Docket Entries

2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-03-03
Application (21A460) denied by Justice Alito.
2022-02-25
Application (21A460) for a stay, submitted to Justice Alito.
2022-02-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2021-12-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 31, 2022)

Attorneys

A. A.
Phyllis WidmanWidman Law Firm, LLC, Petitioner