TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 4, 2022

The state has asked a federal judge to halt his previous order on masks in schools while a newly filed appeal is pending in a higher court, the Tennessean reports. Last Thursday, attorneys for the state filed a motion in federal court asking U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw to delay implementing his Dec. 10 order, which blocked a new state law that would prevent schools from issuing mask mandates and strip local health and school officials of their ability to set COVID-19 quarantine policies. Crenshaw had blocked the state ban on mask mandates at the request of parents seeking to protect students with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The state argues that existing disability accommodation laws provide enough protection for students and the law in question allows for individual ADA accommodations.