Wed Nov 23, 2022 – 5:27 pm EST
SAN DIEGO (LifeSiteNews) – California’s Fourth District Court of Appeals rejected an appeal from San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) that asked it to uphold the district’s COVID-19 jab mandate.
A three-judge panel from the court released its opinion Tuesday, concurring with a previous ruling made in December. According to Tuesday’s ruling, a San Diego Unified School District mandate “unlawfully seeks to usurp that authority (of the state legislature).”
“In sum, then, we reject the District’s primary contention that the Legislature left the door open for local school districts to require student vaccination for COVID-19 as a condition to attending in-person class,” the ruling continued.
The ruling also criticized the district’s decision to enroll unjabbed students into independent study as opposed to in-person learning. According to the ruling, “(The district) makes the strained argument that the Roadmap does not actually mandate students be vaccinated for COVID-19. Rather, it gives them the choice to either do so or be enrolled in independent study.”
“We doubt that students and their parents perceive a real choice. For some, independent study would likely be a step backwards,” the ruling continued. Other arguments
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