No. 25-1152

Jonathan Moreland v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2026-04-06
Status: Pending
Type: Paid
Tags: administrative-law bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights due-process school-attendance vaccine-mandate
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

The United States District Court, District of West Virginia lacked lawful authority to require Petitioner to take a meningitis vaccine in order to attend school:

1. Who owns the physical body of Jonathan Moreland, Petitioner?

2. Did the lower courts violate petitioner's due process rights?

3. Can a CORPORATE MUNICIPAL (WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH) officer order a person to take an injection against a medical doctor's recommendation?

4. Can a CORPORATE MUNICIPAL (WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH) officer presume to have some right, title, or interest, in the physical body of Petitioner?

5. Does being a "minor" pursuant to Title 31 CFR 363.6 mean that petitioner gives up any right, title, or interest, in his physical body?

6. Does the United States Army, General of the Attorneys, aka United States Attorney General (or her minions, Bar members or administrative agents) get to maintain control over petitioner's physical body ("container") when operating as a "common-law trustee" pursuant to Title 50 USC 4312, para. 4?

7. Would the premises of the case of Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Auth., 297 U.S. 288 (1936) mean that petitioner operates in a diminished capacity in relation to his physical body?

8. Is it true that Respondents as Public Trustees are operating upon the premise of "why not make every citizen a corporation sole, and thus bring them all into the Courts of the United States quo minus?" Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. 738 (1824)?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state health department may mandate vaccination as a condition of school attendance without violating a student's bodily autonomy and due process rights

Docket Entries

2025-07-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 6, 2026)

Attorneys

Federal Respondents
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Jonathan Moreland
Jonathan Moreland — Petitioner