Parents Lose Bid for Injunction on N.Y. School Vaccine Rules

An antivaccination group failed to obtain a court order blocking enforcement of New York’s new rules for medical exemptions to mandatory school immunization requirements, because the group is unlikely to prove that the regulations violate parents’ or students’ constitutional rights, a federal court in Syracuse said.

New York public health law requires children to be immunized from certain diseases before they can attend any public, private, or parochial school. In the wake of a large measles outbreak, the state legislature in 2019 removed an exception to this requirement for families objecting on religious grounds.

The state retained a medical exception ...