SAN DIEGO —
The U.S. Supreme Court docket declined Friday to grant an emergency order blocking San Diego Unified College District from imposing its COVID-19 vaccine necessities, citing the district’s determination to delay implementing the coverage.
“As a result of respondents have delayed implementation of the challenged coverage, and since they haven't settled on the shape any coverage will now take, emergency aid just isn't warranted at the moment,” the one-page court docket order reads.
The nation’s highest court docket left open the possibility it will rethink taking the case, ought to circumstances change.
The denial arises from a federal swimsuit introduced by a Scripps Ranch Excessive College scholar who needed the court docket to forestall the district from imposing its vaccine requirement as a result of it didn't permit non secular exemptions for college students.
At concern is a COVID vaccine mandate the college board authorised in September for workers and college students ages 16 and up. College students have been imagined to be totally vaccinated to attend faculty in particular person or to take part in extracurricular actions beginning Jan. 24.
A Feb. 11 letter from the coed’s lawyer requested the excessive court docket to take the case regardless of what he mentioned was a district assertion that it might implement the vaccine requirement “piecemeal.”
“The District guarantees solely that the vaccine requirement will likely be delayed, at most a short time,” reads the letter from lawyer Paul M. Jonna.
A district spokesperson didn't instantly return a request for extra data Saturday.
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