Student Athlete Permitted To Refuse Vaccination On Religious Grounds

In Hadley v. Rush Henrietta Central School District, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1372 (WD NY, Jan. 10, 2006), a federal district judge issued a temporary injunction requiring a New York school district near Rochester to permit a high school senior to to play on the lacrosse team even though he refused on religious grounds to be vaccinated for tetanus.