Judge: Student Challenging COVID Vaccination Need Fails To State Plausible Claims

(March 19, 2024, 2:08 PM EDT) -- HANNIBAL, Mo. — A Missouri federal judge on March 18 granted a motion of a health sciences university to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former medical student alleging breach of contract and violations of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Missouri state law against religious discrimination after she withdrew from the university because of its requirement that she be vaccinated for COVID-19 to participate in a clinical rotation....