Judge rules against L.A. Unified’s vaccine mandate, which remains on pause

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that L.A. Unified does not have the authority to require students to be vaccinated to attend school, that only the state does, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.

But the ruling has no immediate effect at the district, since it postponed its mandate until at least July 2023, which is in line with the state’s own vaccine mandate pause, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAUSD was among several districts that had initially planned on enforcing vaccine mandates prior to the state’s but rolled the deadlines back since a large number of students had not confirmed their vaccination status in time.

A San Diego County Superior Court judge struck down San Diego Unified’s student vaccine mandate in December using similar reasoning, the Times reported.