NCLA Urges Supreme Court to Hear Vaccine Mandate Case that Clearly Misreads Precedent

The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the Boysen v. PeaceHealth case, arguing that courts have misinterpreted the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts decision to justify broad vaccine mandates. NCLA contends that Jacobson should only permit mandates when vaccines prevent disease transmission to third parties, and that lower courts have failed to protect individuals' liberty interests in refusing unwanted medical treatment.