{"id":37828,"date":"2021-07-19T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37828"},"modified":"2021-07-19T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:00:03","slug":"federal-judge-will-not-block-indiana-universitys-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37828","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge will not block Indiana University&#8217;s vaccine mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana University&#8217;s vaccine requirement for students and employees will remain in place after a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Damon Leichty of the Northern District of Indiana on Sunday denied the injunction request, following a lawsuit from eight students who argued the policy violated their constitutional rights and state law.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means the school&#8217;s vaccine mandate will remain in place while the case is decided.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit comes as vaccination rates have stagnated in many Republican-leaning states and counties, leading to new surges of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana&#8217;s flagship public university announced in May that it would require its more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana University&#8217;s vaccine requirement for students&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37829,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37828\/revisions\/37829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}