vaccine-mandate

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25A431 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate Whether the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permits a government entity to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for emp…
24-1114 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate Whether a State may avoid judicial review of a statute categorically prohibiting religious accommodations by rescinding an emergency rule while contin…
24-6320 Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate Whether COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual constitutional rights and the scope of executive emergency powers
24A73 Michael S. Freeman, II v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights medical-autonomy ninth-amendment nuremberg-code public-health-policy vaccine-mandate Whether the Ninth Amendment provides a constitutional basis for challenging vaccine mandates under the Nuremberg Code
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Question not identified
23-1265 Catherine Antunes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity constitutional-rights due-process economic-coercion emergency-authorization employer-coercion equal-protection jacobson-v-massachusetts prep-act vaccine vaccine-mandate Does the Constitutional right to bodily integrity encompass the right to decline a vaccine?
23-1222 Children's Health Defense, et al. v. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection experimental-treatment experimental-vaccine jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-consent vaccine-efficacy vaccine-mandate vaccine-safety Fundamental-right-to-refuse-medical-treatment
23-996 Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived bodily-autonomy civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process heightened-scrutiny jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-treatment public-health vaccine-mandate Whether Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), when read in light of this Court's later acknowledgment that the right to refuse treatment is '…
23-600 Dan Robert, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived adverse-effects armed-forces constitutional-rights covid-19-vaccine experimental-injection experimental-medical-treatment judicial-review medical-coercion military-service separation-of-powers vaccine-mandate Whether the unlawful implementation of the harmful Covid vaccine mandate in the Armed Services properly evades judicial review
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
23-5344 Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious?
22-7720 Toni Marie Davis v. University of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2023-06-06 Denied IFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process experimental-vaccine medical-privacy privacy public-university vaccine-mandate Did the University of Maryland including Towson University break the laws by mandating/making a new law forcing their employees and students to tell t…
22-6957 Toni Marie Davis v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-overreach medical-ethics nuremberg-codes vaccine-mandate voluntary-consent Did the President including the federal government violate the Constitution and other federal and state laws by mandating an experimental vaccine?
22-404 Jane Goe, Sr., on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. James V. McDonald, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-rights jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-exemption public-health strict-scrutiny unconstitutional-conditions vaccine-mandate Whether families have a fundamental right to a medical exemption
22-5408 Lady Donna Dutchess v. Jason Dutch Alaska 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise lemon-test medical-scientology religious-freedom vaccine-mandate vaccine-mandates Is the court's faith in vaccine mandates an unconstitutional establishment of the religion of medical scientology?
21-1511 Joy Garner, Individually and on Behalf of The Control Group, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights control-group due-process fifth-amendment government-action mandatory-vaccination scientific-evidence scientific-method standing standing-doctrine vaccine-mandate Do the threatened members of the Control Group have standing to sue the President for systematically destroying their evidence and violating the panop…
21-1463 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate Whether the CMS vaccine mandate for healthcare workers violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Spending Clause, the anti-commandeering doctrine…
21-1143 Dr. A., et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (10) administrative-rule covid-19 covid-vaccine-mandate employment-division-v-smith free-exercise free-exercise-clause medical-exemption religious-exemption secular-conduct vaccine-mandate Whether a COVID vaccine mandate that provides no religious exemption while allowing medical exemptions violates the Free Exercise Clause
21-295 In Re America's Frontline Doctors, et al. 2021-08-30 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization genetic-vaccine informed-consent medical-rights natural-immunity scientific-consensus vaccine-mandate Whether the district court committed an abuse of discretion by neglecting to enforce federal law regarding emergency use authorization (EUA) products …
20-451 Jane Doe, Individually and as Parent and Guardian of Baby Doe, et al. v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived citizens-action civil-rights due-process fda-licensing fda-regulation primary-jurisdiction standing thimerosal vaccine-act vaccine-injury vaccine-mandate Whether courts should extend the precedent of Jacobson v. Massachusetts to require that a mandated vaccine be necessary, harm-avoidant, proportional a…