There is no constitutional exemption, based on free exercise of religion, to laws mandating vaccines for school-age children, an Eastern District judge has held.
Judge William Kuntz II ruled that precedents in both the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Mass., 197 U.S. 11 (1905), and in the Eastern District, in Caviezel v. Great Neck Public Schools, 739 F. Supp. 2d 273 (EDNY, 2010), required him to reject challenges to compulsory inoculation on religious freedom grounds.
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