Ochuwa Garuba

2 weeks ago | statecourtreport.org | Alicia Bannon |Bridget Lavender |Geeta Tewari |Ochuwa Garuba

Last week, Massachusetts’s highest court unanimously ruled that the commonwealth’s Department of Children and Families violated the Massachusetts Constitution when it vaccinated a child temporarily in its custody despite the religious objections of her parents. It was a significant religious freedom ruling at a time when declining public trust in vaccines is likely to make such conflicts more common.