In the waning days of 2020, as COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts were summiting the highest peak of the pandemic, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts decided that the First Amendment’s Assembly Clause does not protect private assembly by private citizens...
...New Civil Liberties Alliance is involved in other vaccine mandate cases, and Younes acknowledges thus far, courts have been siding with schools. "The employee mandates, so far, have mostly been upheld at universities," Younes said. "I think that things will change...
...Jeanna Norris, an MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer who previously recovered from a case of COVID-19, sued administrators over the mandate, saying she received medical advice from her immunologist that she does not need a vaccine. Read the full...
Michigan State University recognizes COVID-19 vaccines not approved for use in the United States with lower documented efficacy than natural immunity, according to a federal lawsuit. It's the second filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) against a public...
Ten years ago, Alyssa Reid landed her dream job: assistant director of the speech and debate team at James Madison University (JMU). She also became a faculty member of the School of Communication Studies, where she met a student named Kathryn Lese. Lese took Reid's...
A New Hampshire man's efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms are barred by federal law prohibiting suits that could restrain tax collection, the U.S. told the First Circuit. The appeals court should not...
Dr. Hooman Noorchashm argues Americans who have already had COVID and are naturally immune should not be forced to be vaccinated.
The moment that many eagerly awaited — or feared — arrived last week. In a closely watched address, President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new expansion of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The plan, which has a goal of covering about two-thirds of all American workers,...
...Noorchashm has recently been cited in a lawsuit by a Michigan State University employee who is suing her employer over its vaccine mandate. Jeanna Norris, an administrative associate, also argues those who have COVID-19 antibodies to be exempt from the vaccine...
On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden told unvaccinated Americans he was losing patience with them, and it was their fault other Americans are dying. Then he announced wide-ranging executive action to force public employees and employees of federal contractors to...