UMass Defeats Students’ Suit to Stop Mandatory Covid Shots

The University of Massachusetts can insist that students at its Boston and Lowell campuses be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to campus at the beginning of the fall semester, a federal court in the state said Friday.

UMass joins a list of schools whose vaccine mandates have been given the go-ahead by federal courts, including the University of Connecticut and the University of Indiana. Suits challenging vaccine mandates have also been filed against Rutgers, California State University, and George Mason University.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed the students’ complaint against UMass Boston and ...