Supreme Court allows Indiana University to require vaccines
The Supreme Court rejected a plea from a group of Indiana University students to stop the university's requirement that all students be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is tasked with emergency petitions from that region of the country, did not give a reason behind her ruling Thursday.
It was the first case about vaccination requirements to reach the Supreme Court. Both a federal district judge and a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had previously rejected the request that the university’s requirement be put on hold while the issue was further litigated.
In June, Indiana University administrators announced that students and employees would have to verify their vaccination status unless they applied for a medical or religious exemption.
The lawsuit alleged that the university violated students' rights and that if they did not comply, they would face "the threat of virtual expulsion from school."
-ABC News' Will Gretsky and Erin Schumaker