Public Health Authority
Case Updates
May 27, 2022
Case updates this week:

Wednesday, May 26: The Sixth Circuit rejected an appeal filed by a private religious school and school parents seeking an injunction against Michigan’s expired statewide mask mandate.

Monday, May 23: The Supreme Court denied review in F.F. v. New York. Previously, a New York state appellate court rejected parents' constitutional challenges to New York's repeal of the religious exemption from mandatory vaccination for school children.

Monday, May 23: The Seventh Circuit ruled that a group of Illinois residents and businesses’ claims challenging Gov. Pritzker’s COVID-19 executive orders was properly dismissed by a lower court.

Saturday, May 21: Opponents of the federal employee vaccine mandate filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit asking that the court’s April ruling dismissing the lawsuit challenging the policy be vacated, and that the full 17-member court hear new arguments in the case. 
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