Can a state require vaccinations? And is the Supreme Court's 1905 answer still good?
Massachusetts recently announced its plan to require flu vaccines for public school students. A 1905 Supreme Court decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, seems to give a state that power. This episode reviews Jacobson and considers how developments in (1) religious freedom law, (2) the law of administrative-agency procedure, and (3) the law of personal body autonomy, may weaken or strengthen Jacobson in the modern setting.
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