Posted on 11/17/2021 8:27:27 PM PST by marshmallow
University permanently barred from enforcing vaccine mandate and will have to pay legal fees of four female, Christian student-athletes.
Western Michigan University is permanently barred from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate against student athletes and will pay nearly $35,000 in legal fees under a consent judgment issued Nov. 16 by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Under an agreement signed by attorneys for the athletes and the university, Western Michigan agreed that the preliminary injunction upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will be made permanent, ending the lawsuit brought Aug. 30 by two Catholic and two Protestant women’s soccer players. The suit was later expanded to include a total of 16 student athletes. The students were denied religious exemptions against the vaccine requirement issued Aug. 12 by WMU and its athletic department. The general student population at the 20,500-student school in Kalamazoo is not required to be inoculated against COVID-19.
“We’re very thrilled,” said David A. Kallman, senior counsel with the Great Lakes Justice Center, which represents the athletes. “It really affirms that there’s still some life and vitality in the First Amendment. People can have some protections in place.”
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A big one.
I dont care what anyone says.
Take that NFL, NBA, etc.
The fees need to be paid from the administrators’ salaries, not the tuition and fees from students, nor from state grants.
It is.
But we can’t all be collegiate atheletes.
Just read the 5 page decision.
It also okays weekly testing and muzzles for the unvaxxed.
Sigh.
And, if I read it right, it also precludes further legal action on the part of the students...
Kids, your laywer/s suck/s.
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