The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from parents who sought to challenge New York lawmakers’ decision that eliminated religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren.
On Monday, the nation’s high court released an order (pdf) announcing their decision not to hear arguments in the case F.F., as Parent of Y.F. v. New York, which centers on a lawsuit challenging a 2019 law repealing religious exemptions for vaccines.
The rejection of the appeal lets stand a lower court decision that concluded that the parents’ arguments lacked merit, the Christian Post reported.
A group of 55 families filed a lawsuit in July 2019 asking the New York State Supreme Court to stop the statewide repeal of the religious exemption to vaccines….