TRI In The News
Mingo Mom Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case
7/28/2011
TRI IN THE NEWS: MINGO MOM ASKS SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE
From The Charleston Gazette
Original article available here.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- A Mingo County mother is taking her challenge to the state's child immunization law to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville, Va., said Monday that it has asked the justices to hear Jennifer Workman's case.
In March, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Workman's claim that the immunization mandate violated her religious rights. The full appeals court refused to review the case.
Workman sued West Virginia and Mingo County health and education officials after Lenore Pre-K to 8 School refused to admit her daughter without vaccinations against childhood diseases. Along with the religious objections, Workman said she was concerned that the vaccinations would cause her daughter to develop autism.
