The appeal arrives at the nation’s highest court as some employers, restaurants and schools are requiring vaccines.
The students filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to block enforcement of the university’s requirement, which they said violates their constitutional right to bodily integrity under the 14th Amendment.
The case is one of the most compelling involving COVID-19 to reach the Supreme Court since its 6-3 conservative majority ruled against a number of orders by governors that applied to churches, synagogues and mosques earlier in the pandemic.limiting the size of their indoor worship services. But those regulations affected First Amendment rights, and the court has generally applied a higher level of scrutiny in such matters.
But the Massachusetts case has stirred a debate about just how far its precedential reach extends.
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