Mon Nov 15, 2021 – 2:18 pm EST
SAN DIEGO (LifeSiteNews) — A state judge rejected a lawsuit from parental advocacy groups against California’s COVID rules for schools across the state. Pro-freedom groups already said they will continue to fight the mask mandate.
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Freeland “rejected challenges to California’s statewide requirement that students and staff wear face masks indoors at schools to prevent spread of COVID-19, leaving it to the governor to decide when it’s safe to lift the mandate,” the Times-Herald reported.
Parties disagreed about whether the state guidance amounted to a “de facto mandate” due to possible consequences for school districts that did not enforce the COVID restrictions.
Judge Freeland made her decision on Friday, November 12. “While there is a fundamental right to an education,” Freeland said, “courts routinely have permitted the exclusion of students who refuse to comply with public health and safety measures designed to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, measures far more invasive than a mask mandate.”
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