So, the SC is now meaningless

Notoriously Liberal Circuit Court Rules LA Covid Vax Mandate Must Stand -- Even If It Doesn’t Work: ‘Efficacy is Irrelevant’

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a COVID vaccine mandate for the Los Angeles Unified School District should be upheld even if the shot cannot stop transmission of the virus.

The ruling overturned an earlier decision stating that the district violated employees’ constitutional rights when they were fired for not getting the jab, Legal News Wire reported.

The challenge was originally brought back in 2021 by an organization called California Educators for Medical Freedom. They were joined by individual plaintiffs, and later by the Health Freedom Defense Fund.

The lawsuit said the district violated the rights of workers to refuse medical treatment by forcing them to get the COVID vaccine while offering no exemptions and threatening to fire them.

A federal judge dismissed the case, relying on precedent set in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. That case, however, dealt with smallpox, which had an inoculation that was proven effective. It was also decided 120 years ago.

The fired workers then appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

The district tried to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming the mandate was no longer in place. The court admonished them, however, accusing the district of trying to “tactically manipulate” the judiciary by constantly rescinding and then reupping the mandate to gain a dismissal, according to Legal News Wire.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/notoriously-liberal-circuit-court-rules-la-covid-vax/