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...

Calling it a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," President Joe Biden announced a new, sweeping federal mandate Thursday that will require about 100 million American workers to get coronavirus vaccines with hopes of squelching a national surge driven by the delta variant...

A growing body of research is making it increasingly clear that natural immunity to Covid-19 owing to previous infection is stronger, more durable, and broader than vaccine-induced immunity. Apart from not being unusual among infectious diseases, this fact has...

As many as 100 million American workers will be mandated to get vaccines or undergo weekly coronavirus testing as part of a sweeping set of new federal vaccine conditions where President Biden also pressured governors to require vaccines for school teachers. “If these...

  NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel Mark Chenoweth, Dr. Marc Siegel and Jessica Tarlov joins 'Fox News @ Night' to discuss Biden's push for coronavirus vaccine mandates.  

On Aug. 31, Judge Paul Maloney, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, declined to block Michigan State University’s (MSU) COVID-19 vaccine mandate. MSU employee Jeanna Norris alleged, that she should be exempted from the vaccine...

A group of charter fishermen and boat owners are plowing ahead with a class-action lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule called the “For-Hire Electronic Reporting Amendment” that requires the installation of GPS tracking systems on their boats as well as the...

The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit against Michigan State University over the COVID vaccination policy it announced July 30 for students and staff. Specifically, it objects to the school’s refusal to grant an exception for individuals who already have...

A new category of professional has joined the legal challenges to university vaccine mandates: doctors. University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine psychiatrist and medical ethicist Aaron Kheriaty is suing the university system to recognize his natural...

Todd Zywicki, a George Mason University law professor, sued school officials in early August over its vaccination policy and other Covid measures, saying that he shouldn’t have to comply because he’d already had Covid. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which...

A Western Michigan University soccer player is defending her decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine as she and some of her fellow teammates fight back against the school's policy. The deadline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the plaintiffs fighting the vaccine...

Michigan State administrative associate and fiscal officer Jeanna Norris filed a lawsuit against MSU's administration on Friday in relation to the university's vaccine requirement. According to the case of Norris v. Stanley, Norris tested positive for COVID-19, and...

Michigan State University (MSU) employee sued over the school's recently announced vaccine mandate, saying she has naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19 after recovering from the virus last year and doesn’t need the vaccine. Jeanna Norris is a supervisory...

A major reason why many Americans remain unvaccinated is the belief that so-called natural immunity protects as well or better than immunity from vaccination. A professor at George Mason University recently filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging that because he...

In a separate case, Jeanna Norris, a 37-year-old MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer, sued university President Samuel Stanley and the Board of Trustees, arguing that she has natural immunity after recovering from COVID-19 late last year.  Her...

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...