Students Seeking Money Damages After Vaccine Policy Was Enjoined Must Start Anew

Mealey's (July 1, 2022, 12:05 PM EDT) -- PHOENIX — In a case in which nursing students successfully won a preliminary injunction to prevent an Arizona state community college district from enforcing its policy that they satisfy the COVID-19 vaccination requirements of its member colleges’ clinical partners and complete their assigned in-person clinical rotations in order to graduate, a federal judge on June 30 denied both the students’ motion to amend their complaint to seek compensatory and punitive damages and a motion to intervene by their former attorneys and dismissed without prejudice the case as moot....