Fear of Losing Religious Exemption No Basis for Vaccine Lawsuit

A woman whose son received a religious exemption from Kansas’ vaccination mandate when he entered preschool in a public school district lost her fight over the requirement’s constitutionality when a federal appeals court Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of her case for lack of standing.

Terri Baker’s fear that the school district will revoke the exemption because officials didn’t follow the rules for granting it wasn’t an injury in fact giving her the right to sue challenging the validity of the state’s laws and the local district’s policies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said.

Baker’s second ...