GMU Law professor sues George Mason University, challenging covid vaccine mandate

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Higher Education

Law professor sues George Mason University, challenging covid vaccine mandate

By Susan Svrluga
August 4, 2021 at 6:34 p.m. EDT

A law-school professor filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging George Mason University’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, arguing it is unnecessarily coercive and unconstitutional.

The nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the case against George Mason’s president and some of its other leaders in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of Todd Zywicki, a professor at the university’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

The lawsuit argues that the public university has no compelling interest in overriding Zywicki’s personal autonomy and that because none of the vaccines approved for use in the United States has received full Food and Drug Administration approval, the school’s policy is in conflict with federal law.

Robin Rose Parker, a spokeswoman for George Mason, said the university has no comment on the litigation.

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Zywicki said in an interview that he would have gotten vaccinated if he had not already contracted, and recovered from, covid-19. He said he was advised by his immunologist that he has strong natural immunity to the virus now, confirmed by positive antibody tests, and that a vaccine is medically unnecessary.

“I would rather rely on the advice of my doctor,” Zywicki said, “than mid-level bureaucrats at Mason who are designing a one-size-fits-all solution.”

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By Susan Svrluga
Susan Svrluga is a reporter covering higher education for The Washington Post. Before that, she covered education and local news at The Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/SusanSvrluga

Todd J. Zywicki

George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law

AB, Dartmouth College; MA, Clemson University; JD, University of Virginia

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Todd Zywicki Retweeted

nclalegal.org/2021/08/ncla-sues-gmu-officials-over-their-refusal-to-recognize-prof-s-naturally-acquired-covid-immunity/
Last night I, along with my incredible colleagues
@NCLAlegal
, filed a lawsuit in fed court in VA against GMU on behalf of
@ToddZywicki
, arguing that he should not be subject to the vaccine mandate b/c he has natural immunity. 1/

Link to tweet

[comradebillyboy]

1. He's going to lose this suit. Maybe his job as well.

Fuck these anti-vaxxers.

[secondwind]

2. As usual for these folks....

It’s all about HIM.

[PortTack]

3. What an idiot! If his case had any standing then no shirt, no shoes would have gone down too

And that isn’t even about a pandemic

[underpants]

4. Full approval is the new one they are going with

I’m seeing and hearing it more and more every day

[nitpicker]

5. Just wait until students spread COVID back to their relatives

GMU teachers used to have much more sense back in MY day.

[Claire Oh Nette]

6. Full Approval

These idiots do not understand that Emergency Use Authorization means the BENEFITS so far out weigh the risks that it would be unethical NOT to offer it to people.

They know zero about pharmaceutical drug trials, INDs, NDAs, AEs, or how trials are conducted.

Pfizer's vaccine is set for September approval. Wait and see how many corporations (Disney, Pfizer, one of the legacy carrier airlines, and the US military...) REQUIRE vaccination or twice weekly COVID tests.

Enough is enough. Play time is over. They've shown themselves to be gullible fools. Can we now work together to stave off Lambda, that developed precisely because of the unvaxxed?