Two undergraduate students at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have sued the Los Angeles-based Catholic university in federal court, challenging its mandatory policy that requires students to receive a Covid-19 shot or follow a list of requirements in order to be allowed to return to campus.
A motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction is expected to be filed next. Students are represented by attorneys from Tyler & Bursch, LLP, the Law Offices of Nicole C. Pearson, Children’s Health Defense – California Chapter, and Advocates for Faith & Freedom.
“The health and safety of our community members continues to guide our return to campus priorities and protocols,” LMU said. “On April 26, 2021, the university announced that all students must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 this fall. To protect the health and safety of our community, we are now asking that all faculty and staff be fully vaccinated prior to returning to campus this fall. We understand that some faculty and staff will choose not to vaccinate for medical, religious, or other reasons. We also understand that some may choose not to disclose their vaccination status.
“Those who are not fully vaccinated or who do not disclose their vaccination status by registering in Vax LMU, will be subject to additional requirements,” which include submitting to be regularly tested, wearing masks indefinitely and maintaining social distancing requirements.
The policy allowing for some exemptions are limited in scope, conditional and discriminatory, the students argue in their lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California. For example, “vaccine-exempted students would be required to live in separate dorms, wear face coverings, social distance, submit to surveillance testing, while those who got the shots would be free to move around campus without any conditions or requirements.”
The underlying premise, which is not backed by science, the complaint argues, is that those who do not receive the shots pose a greater risk of transmitting the coronavirus than those who get them, even if the exempted are healthy and do not have the virus.
“There is, again, no defensible evidence to support this position,” the students argue.
There are no similar conditions tied to any other exemption granted by the university for any other vaccine that it mandates for attendance, the complaint states.
The complaint also says that the school’s policy requires those who receive exemptions assume all risk for any Covid-related cases or injuries that develop on campus, even though asymptomatic transmission is not supported by the weight of the scientific evidence.
“There is simply no rational basis in science, medicine or law for LMU to defend its policy,” Alix Mayer, Children’s Health Defense-CA Board president, said in a statement. “Without any valid reason, this school is discriminating against healthy students who pose no risk to anyone….”
The school reopened its Westchester campus on July 26 and opens its LLS campus on Aug 2.
The above comes from a July 28 story in The Center Square.
If Loyola Marymount is claiming that it is a Catholic college, the students could also sue them for false advertising.
I hope that those who are fighting these vaccines don’t make a claim to be pro-life, because they plainly are not.
YFC,
One’s decision to get the vaccine doesn’t easily reduce to being pro-life or not. Rather, one’s decision is based on a personal risk assessment as well as taking responsibility for oneself.
I’ve not gotten the vaccine and won’t until it receives FDA approval. After that point, I’ll have to re-assess. Unfortunately, the virus and the vaccine have both become political. This means that the validity of any future FDA approval, itself, might be called into question.
And what exactly does FDA approval guarantee? Those who resist the vaccine are dooming us all to more lockdown and mask wearing.
What is not reported is that many people have been injured or died from taking the vaccines. Some have had uncontrollable shaking. Too many have gotten massive blood clots right after taking it, even of the brain. Some doctors say the more we take this type of vaccine, which is different from past vaccines, such as tetanus, the more apt we are to have serious side effects. The first swine flu shot was taken off the market for fewer injuries per person. This has been covered up by certain people in the medical establishment.
I should have written “these vaccines” for all of my post above. One so far is worse than the other two, but they all have had some serious side effects, especially the Astra Zeneca.
Dillon,
I disagree. Those who are unvaccinated are not dooming us to more masks and lockdowns. Rather, it’s the governors and health department who are making these decisions that are dooming us to this fate.
At-risk populations need to get the vaccine. To my knowledge, there is not a vaccine shortage.
Dillon,
I forgot to reply to your question, “what exactly does FDA approval guarantee?” Well, I don’t think the FDA gives a guarantee on anything. Without a doubt, though, FDA approval would mean that they have sufficiently vetted the drug and have deemed it to be safe.
But if politics enters into the safety equation, well . . . ???
Steve, I might not have been as clear as I could have been, I’m sorry. I make a differentiation between those who decide personally not to get vaccinated – especially when they have legitimate known allergies or reactions to vaccines or needles, on the one hand, but on the other hand, those who are fighting anybody getting the vaccine, often doing so publicly and trying to persuade others, because they think it has a Bill Gates chip, or it hasn’t been proven to work, or they pretend that their ingredients in the vaccines that are just not there, or any number of nutcase conspiracy theories and false “information”. Those latter people, I think, cannot call themselves pro-life.
I hope you make it until we get FDA approval, which should come in a few weeks. Right now, 10% of people in SF who get tested are positive for the virus, which means there is an awful lot of virus waiting to infect the unvaccinated. It’s everywhere…at Safeway, at diners, and at indoor Masses. Please at least mask indoors and take care of yourself.
YFC, why not give as much care and consideration to the unborn as you do for Steve Seitz? They are as human as he is, and at a much greater risk of being killed.
YFC, do you honestly believe this is still about a virus? We have no idea of the long term effects of this false vaccine I will not get it. This entire virus scam has been the dream of petty tyrants who are gladly snuffing out our civil liberties.
What a ridiculous thing to say Save the Babies.
My question is why do you care more for children who died decades ago than for children who will die by COVID this month, all who could have been saved but for a few vaccinations, masking, out siding and distancing?
Children who may get covid are not doomed to die from it, and they are not purposely killed, as are children in the womb of abortion minded mothers. There is no comparison, strange that a self described Catholic such as you YFC, refuses to admit it.
A child killed in the name of science, even decades ago, is still a horrible tragedy and I refuse to personally benefit from that murder. Shame on those who are willing to keep themselves alive at the expense of another.
I have received the vaccine (my choice). Some may say that I am not pro-life, because I have allowed an unproven vaccine to be put into my body when the long term effects are not known. The fact is I had to make that decision for myself. I don’t tell anyone else that they need to get the vaccine. I don’t want you or the government mandating it for anyone. If the vaccine is so effective, and you have received it, what do you have to worry about? If you are trying to make a comparison to abortion, it makes no sense. A human being is killed as a direct result of every abortion. The vaccine may save lives, but it has already taken some lives. Only time will determine the long term effects. The effect of every abortion is the taking of an innocent human life. Fact check that.
I agree with you that it is a person decision. As Americans (actually, human) we have the right to make the decision what we put into our bodies. Godless, Communist societies overrule these rights and mandate that everyone get the vaccine.
As for the pro-life issue, a live baby was aborted and while still alive, cells were extracted from her kidney for a cell line that were used in the testing of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
The fact is that fetal cell lines from aborted babies were used in researching the experimental jab you chose to allow into your body. That’s not something to be high and mighty about.
Save the Unborn Babies, You are not correct. No fetal cell lines were used to make, produce, or research the mRNA vaccines. Letting people die is not something to be high and mighty about, especially when doing so saves no unborn babies.
YFC, you choose to repeatedly deny the fact that cell lines from aborted babies absolutely were used in the research and development of the current vaccines, but that is the fact of the matter. It’s in their literature, pharmaceutical companies openly admit it, strange that you won’t.
The evil doers who killed and paid for aborted human beings are the ones who are letting people die. Unborn people are just as human as the born, shame they rate lower on your personal hierarchy.
YFC, if the COVID vaccine is so good and effective, it’s free and Brother Biden now wants to pay the unvaccinated $100 to take the jab, why aren’t people lining up?
There are too many unanswered questions about its efficacy and even unintended (negative) consequences.
I don’t believe Biden offered $100. Besides, people aren’t lining up because people like you create unneeded suspicions about the vaccine. Look at where hospitalizations are mounting. Now look at where they aren’t. Where vaccines were adopted, hospitalizations are up slightly and very few people have died. In places where only 30 or 40% got vaccinated, both are rising quickly.
Free beer, donuts, weed, fries, gift cards, hot dogs, candy, sports tickets, the list is huge. Why if vaccines are so great does the government bribe people to take it?
c’mon suing students:
Lay Lola Low
We have a right to put into our bodies what we want to put in them. OK, no problem. If you don’t want the vaccine, don’t get it. But, you don’t have the right to infect your fellow humans. The data changes every day, so the suggestions on how to reduce the spread will change from time to time. We know that 98% of deaths recently are people who are not vaccinated. That tilts the discussion in the direction of getting vaccinated. Most of the new cases are unvaccinated. That moves the discussion toward the direction of getting vaccinated. The new Delta variant is moving much faster than the first covid 19 strain of the virus. That moves the discussion in favor of vaccination and wearing a mask indoors at stores, etc. The mask isn’t a political statement or the government trying to control us. It is an age-old deterrent to spreading a germ. There are a lot of people in hot zones of the virus that don’t want to cooperate in saving their fellow human beings. Even modern day medicine can’t cure stupid.
Bob One,
I’ll add some additional context. Every year, people contract, spread, and die from the flu. Society, in general, does not freak out about this. The only exception are the elderly for whom the vaccine is heavily recommended.
At this point, we are approaching [or are in] a similar risk stage with the coronavirus. People are contracting and spreading the virus. Those that are at risk are almost entirely vaccinated. Those in the low risk group have chosen not to get vaccinated.
As we see in the following links to John Hopkins University, the new cases in California are spiking. The new deaths in California remain flat or are continuing to decline.
The following link shows new cases in California:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-timeline/new-confirmed-cases/california/1
This following link shows new deaths in California:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-timeline/new-deaths/california/1
You wrongly assume that unvaxxed infect vaxxed. You can stay home and cower in fear from too much CNN fear porn, the rest of us will go on about our lives.
“Delta Variant” is the manifestation of illness
in the population that has received the so-called
“vaccine.”
self-perpetuating excuse to foist further jabs
on the populace.
if the world is “over-populated” as our rulers assure us,
there is really only ONE way to “cure” over-population
Get it???
Greek has 24 letters
look for lamda, theta, gamma, omicron ……….
in the months to come
great marketing scheme
Cute!
I did not realize we have already had “alpha, beta, gamma”. I must have missed those.
I should have capitalized “Alpha, Beta, Gamma” since they were/are variants.
they’re saving Pi for the most vax resistant
cuz the people will really eat it up
Thomas Malthus, me thinks you would make a good comedian.
A correction: “Me thinks thee would make a good comedian.” If I am going to try to go Shakespearean, I might as well try go all the way. (Laughter.)
“I should have capitalized “Alpha, Beta, Gamma” since they were/are variants.”
and Fauci & Gates are deviants