A fight in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit over school masking policies has fizzled out in light of declining COVID-19 community infection levels. 

Judge Thomas Ambro dismissed complaints from medically vulnerable students and their parents against two Allegheny County school districts Tuesday, agreeing with the defendants that the county’s low COVID transmission levels render the plaintiffs’ challenge to the schools’ masking policies moot. 

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