The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an emergency request from a New York mother seeking to enroll her 5-year-old son in kindergarten without the vaccinations state law requires. The justices rejected the emergency request in a one-line order. It resolved nothing about whether New York's ban on religious exemptions is constitutional.
That distinction matters for every family enrolling a child in a New York school this month, and for parents in the handful of other states that permit only medical exemptions. Nothing about school immunization rules changed on Tuesday, in New York or anywhere else. What changed is that one family's short-term path back into a classroom closed while its lawsuit continues.
