TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 11, 2021

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sided with 16 Western Michigan University students who sued the school to play sports without getting a COVID-19 vaccine due to religious reasons. In an unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel of the court said that the university “having announced a system under which student-athletes can seek individualized exemptions, ... must explain why it chose not to grant any to plaintiffs. And it did not fairly do so here." The decision upheld a lower court ruling which also had backed the students. Detroit's Fox 2 reports.