WE THE PATRIOTS USA v. CONNECTICUT OFFICE OF ECD

Docket No. 22-249-cv August Term 2022.

76 F.4th 130 (2023)

WE THE PATRIOTS USA, INC.; CT Freedom Alliance, LLC; Constantina Lora; Miriam Hidalgo; Asma Elidrissi, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONNECTICUT OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT; Connecticut State Department of Education; Connecticut Department of Public Health; Bethel Board of Education; Glastonbury Board of Education; Stamford Board of Education, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 4, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman A. Pattis ( Cameron L. Atkinson , on the brief), New Haven, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Darren P. Cunningham , Assistant Attorney General, ( Timothy J. Holzman , Alayna M. Stone , on the brief), for William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellees.

Judge Bianco concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.


This case requires us to decide whether a State that has for many years exempted religious objectors from its vaccination requirements for students and participants in childcare programs violates the Free Exercise Clause and other federal constitutional and statutory guarantees by repealing that exemption to protect the public...

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