A federal appeals court has partially reversed a lower court ruling in a case involving a student who was arrested for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit panel on July 18 said that Mount St. Joseph University, a Catholic university in Ohio, may have violated the student’s constitutional rights by detaining him in 2021.
Matthew Warman, the student, “had not committed any crime, was not suspected to have committed any crime, and had not even violated the university’s vaccine policy at that time,” so the arresting officers lacked probable cause, U.S. Circuit Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. wrote for the unanimous panel. “Thus, he plausibly established a denial of his Fourth Amendment rights.”…