A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a complaint that alleged the University of California (UC) system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violated a professor’s constitutional rights.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, the professor, sued the university because it refused to grant permanent exemptions to its mandate to people who recovered from COVID-19 and thus have a form of protection against reinfection and severe disease called natural immunity. Kheriaty was suspended at the time, and has since been fired.
The mandate, according to the lawsuit, violated the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which states in part that “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”…