NC Supreme Court ruling opens path for parents to sue schools, health clinics over Covid-19 vaccines

WRAL.com ^ | 3/20/25 | Will Doran

[CFW]

Lawsuits can move forward against schools and medical clinics over Covid-19 vaccines given to children without their parents' permission, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday, overturning past rulings that had blocked the lawsuits.

The ruling was 5-2 along party lines, with all the Republicans in the majority and all the Democrats dissenting.

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The case in question deals with a then-14-year-old Guilford County high schooler named Tanner Smith. He was given a vaccine even though he and his mother later said they were against it. Smith played football at Western Guilford High. After a 2021 outbreak of Covid-19 cases among some football players, school officials ordered the whole team to go get tested.

But when Smith showed up to get a Covid test at a local clinic, he says, the clinic workers also gave him a vaccine, even though he said he didn't want one.

[snip]

In Friday's ruling, Newby acknowledged the PREP Act's broad immunity rules. But he added that the unwilling vaccination violated the constitutional rights of Smith and his parents — and therefore should void the immunity rules and open the way for lawsuits that claim violations of constitutional rights. Fellow Republican justices Richard Dietz and Trey Allen joined in Newby's opinion.

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Chief Justice Paul Newby wrote the majority opinion, which opens with the declaration that during the Covid-19 pandemic, "we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country."

Newby cited concerns over government decisions in other states that allowed casinos to remain open even while churches had to close.

"And in our state," Newby continued, "medical workers affiliated with a public school forcibly vaccinated a 14-year-old boy despite knowing they lacked consent from both the child and his mother."

[CFW]

Excellent! No health worker should "treat" a child by inserting a chemical into their body without permission from their parents or legal guardian. And no, the school is not a child's legal guardian.

[roving]

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[Salvavida]

Schools don’t make money. So it’s the taxpayer that takes it in the shorts. Maybe if we are lucky it dissolves the entire public school system in NC. One can hope.

The individuals that did it or authorized it should be sued personally. Otherwise nothing changes.

[ronnie raygun]

medical workers affiliated with a public school should lose thier jobs and pensions as well as school officials. Sueing the school is like sueing the tax payer and gets those responsible for this Nazi tactic off the hook

[Adder]

“we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”

That’s for danged sure!

[PubliusMM]

This really only makes sense if the perps (teahers, coaches, administrators, health care workers, hospital staff, etc.) involved lose any sort of governmentally conferred immunity associated with the scamdemic.
Sue them, personally, and spare the taxpayers the burden of paying the judgment.

[odawg]

Schools and teachers, if they purchase it, have liability insurance. And most of them do purchase it.

[Salvavida]

Good point. But we. are talking about numerous plaintiffs whose potential judgments would far exceed their coverage.