An appeals court judge denied a group of students’ request to block Indiana University’s COVID-19 mandate ahead of the fall semester.
Students who don’t like Indiana University’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement can go elsewhere for their education. That was the message delivered by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in a ruling issued Monday that will allow to stand the public university’s requirement that all students and employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine before the start of the fall semester. The court said that colleges and universities may decide what is necessary to keep students safe in decision denying a request for an injunction made by a group of eight students seeking to block the mandate, alleging that it violates their constitutional rights. « People who do not want to be vaccinated may go elsewhere, » wrote Judge Frank Easterbrook in the decision. IU’s policy, announced this spring, requires all students, faculty and staff in the fall semester to be fully vaccinated either by Aug.
