Not a lawyer but this seems like a step in the wrong direction. Sounds like at the moment the school district has three ways people can opt out of the vax mandate: religious reasons, secular reasons (don't know how they define this, I'm guessing health reasons?), or if someone is pregnant. If someone puts in a protest using religious or secular reasons, they have to put in an argument and it has to be evaluated before it's granted. But right now if someone is pregnant, they don't need to say why they're refusing the vax. It's a "per se" refusal, meaning that they don't need to give any more reasons why. If they're pregnant, they can refuse it just because they're pregnant.
What this ruling does is make it so that the mandate is halted only until they remove the pregnancy exception and make pregnant women submit either a religious or secular exception that has to be evaluated. It's a temporary pause, yeah, but if the school district makes things harder for pregnant women, then they'll be allowed to enforce the mandate.
The circuit judge Ikuta's opinion also doesn't look great. Right now the school district is granting more exceptions for secular reasons rather than religious reasons. His opinion is saying that they need to stop granting as many secular exceptions, which will reduce the overall number of exceptions granted.
Might be a temporary win but looks like bad signs ahead for this case. Ninth Circuit gonna Ninth Circuit.
IMO we need these mandates to get to there deadline. Then we need thise that are awake to all oull there kids from school. This will impact the money the schools receive, if enough did this, the problem would go away.
It ain’t no vaccine; it’s mRNA therapy for immunity suppression.
Not a lawyer but this seems like a step in the wrong direction. Sounds like at the moment the school district has three ways people can opt out of the vax mandate: religious reasons, secular reasons (don't know how they define this, I'm guessing health reasons?), or if someone is pregnant. If someone puts in a protest using religious or secular reasons, they have to put in an argument and it has to be evaluated before it's granted. But right now if someone is pregnant, they don't need to say why they're refusing the vax. It's a "per se" refusal, meaning that they don't need to give any more reasons why. If they're pregnant, they can refuse it just because they're pregnant.
What this ruling does is make it so that the mandate is halted only until they remove the pregnancy exception and make pregnant women submit either a religious or secular exception that has to be evaluated. It's a temporary pause, yeah, but if the school district makes things harder for pregnant women, then they'll be allowed to enforce the mandate.
The circuit judge Ikuta's opinion also doesn't look great. Right now the school district is granting more exceptions for secular reasons rather than religious reasons. His opinion is saying that they need to stop granting as many secular exceptions, which will reduce the overall number of exceptions granted.
Might be a temporary win but looks like bad signs ahead for this case. Ninth Circuit gonna Ninth Circuit.
IMO we need these mandates to get to there deadline. Then we need thise that are awake to all oull there kids from school. This will impact the money the schools receive, if enough did this, the problem would go away.