Teen unvaccinated for chickenpox sues Kentucky after being banned from school activities

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A high school student in Kentucky is suing the Northern Kentucky Health Department and other state Health Department officials after an outbreak of chickenpox at his private school led to his removal from the school's basketball team.

Jerome Kunkel, an 18-year-old senior at Assumption Academy in Walton, Kentucky, filed the lawsuit against the health department on Thursday in Boone County Circuit Court.

The suit alleges that the department violated Kunkel's freedom of religion and other rights after the health department implemented a three-week ban for unvaccinated students to attend classes at Assumption Academy and neighboring Our Lady of Assumption Academy.

Both schools are private Catholic institutions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/teen-unvaccinated-for-chickenpox-sues-kentucky-health-department-after-being-banned-from-school-extracurriculars/ar-BBUTKSv?li=BBnb7Kz

Wonder what his religion is. I was raised Catholic and was always vaccinated.

[Stuart G]

1. People can "sue anybody" and anytime..

Filing a "law suit" requires some legal expertise, and that is all. Winning a law suit is totally different. A little like knowing how to play baseball a little, and playing baseball in the major leagues.

...So idiots file law suits. These are "private schools" they have their own rules. So the idiot kid doesn't know a fucking thing about "chickenpox" and vaccinations. Let this idiot kid keep the chickenpox to himself. It is an awful disease that can get much worse. He needs to experience it and keep it to himself. He really doesn't have a clue..

...Perhaps the idiot kid, should avoid the "polio vaccine" He is too stupid to know about that. I guess there is no law against.."stupid". Look who is President?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. "...Perhaps the idiot kid, should avoid the "polio vaccine" "

If he ends up in an iron lung, he won't be so smug.

[Iggo]

2. Sue yer parents, kid. (n/t)

[rurallib]

4. or, since your 18 put on your big boy pants

and get yourself vaccinated

[bitterross]

3. Sorry dipshit. Extracurriclars are a privilege - not a right.

He's going to lose on this. The courts have already ruled that extracurricular activities are "extra" to curriculum. The schools have no duty to treat the participation in those the same as with regular classes.

This precedent was set by the courts when a couple of African-American players took a knee at a football game and the school punished them by throwing them off the team. Now, I don't know if it was in the same circuit as this case will be heard, so that ruling may not be binding nor apply. Though courts do look to rulings in other districts when considering cases.

Hell, there's still plenty of debate among the conservatives and Rethugs on whether or not education is a right. His best idea was calling it religious discrimination. That's the only angle I see working for him in today's courts.

On EDIT: The religious thing will only work if he's the "right" religion though. By that, I mean WASP.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I'd love to be on that jury.