TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 10, 2021

U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw issued a 54-page ruling today blocking the state from preventing schools from issuing mask mandates or stripping local health and school officials of their ability to set COVID-19 quarantine policies, the Tennessean reports. The ruling came in a case filed by the parents of students with disabilities. Crenshaw found that it was in the "public’s interest to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Tennessee’s schools” and that the "Defendants have proffered absolutely nothing to suggest that any harm would come from allowing individual school districts to determine what is best for their schools ...” The ruling on the merits of the case comes after Crenshaw temporarily blocked enforcement of the order in October.