• Advocacy groups (Free Now Foundation and Brave and Free Santa Cruz) are suing California officials over strict school vaccine requirements, arguing they violate parental rights and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.
• California mandates 21 doses of 10 vaccines for school attendance, with medical exemptions solely approved by state officials (not doctors), which plaintiffs claim is unfair and overly restrictive.
• The lawsuit alleges that unvaccinated children are denied education without proper recourse, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement while the case proceeds.
• Parents share tragic stories of children harmed or killed post-vaccination, citing ignored autopsy links, downplayed risks and a flawed compensation system. A former detective claims that 70 percent of SIDS cases she reviewed occurred within a week of vaccination.
• A victory would restore parental medical decision-making, ensure school access for all children and set a national precedent protecting constitutional rights against coercive vaccine policies.

Two advocacy groups are suing the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Gov. Gavin Newsom over strict vaccination requirements for schoolchildren and stripping parents of medical decision-making rights while exposing children to potential vaccine injuries.

Under current California law, children must receive 21 doses of 10 different vaccines, including immunizations for measles, polio and whooping cough, before attending public or private schools, preschools or daycare centers. The only way to opt out is through a medical exemption.

California eliminated personal belief exemptions in 2015 with Senate Bill 277, authored by then-state Sen. Richard Pan, a pediatrician. Since then, parents seeking exemptions must navigate the California Immunization Registry-Medical Exemption (CAIR-ME), where state health officials, not the child’s doctor, have the final say over approval.

Free Now Foundation, a medical nonprofit, and Brave and Free Santa Cruz filed the lawsuit in December 2024, alleging that the system violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The advocacy groups argued that unvaccinated children are denied education without fair recourse. (Related: UCI professor sues school over covid “vaccine” mandate.)

The lawsuit also claimed that California’s vaccine mandate system is overly restrictive and denies families due process. The plaintiffs are now seeking a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of the mandates while the case proceeds in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

“The situation in California has become really grim for parents. They don’t have the right to make medical decisions for their children anymore,” said Alix Mayer, Free Now Foundation chair. “We just want to put parents back in the driver’s seat and [let them] make decisions for their children again. We believe that parents should always call the shots.”

A hearing on the preliminary injunction is expected in July, with advocates hoping for a ruling that could temporarily suspend vaccine enforcement while the case unfolds.

Parents speak out on vaccine injuries

Aside from the alleged parental rights violation over vaccine mandates, parents speak out on vaccine injuries. One tragic case involves Shanticia Nelson and Dayon Carter of Rochester, New York, whose one-year-old daughter, Sa’Niya, died hours after receiving six vaccines at a routine checkup. The parents described her suffering convulsions on the way home, followed by cardiac arrest at the hospital.

Their story is one of 12 harrowing accounts from parents in a preliminary injunction challenging vaccine safety policies. The filings allege systemic failures: coroners omitting vaccination histories from autopsy reports, physicians downplaying risks and a compensation system critics call a “black hole” for grieving families.

The lawsuit also cites explosive claims from Jennifer, a former police detective who investigated sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases. She estimated that 70 percent of SIDS deaths she reviewed occurred within a week of vaccination, yet vaccine records were routinely excluded from autopsies. This claim is supported by a 2021 study analyzing Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data supports her observation: 58 percent of 2,605 infant deaths reported from 1990 to 2019 occurred within three days of vaccination; 78 percent within a week.

Despite this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains there is “no link” between vaccines and SIDS, pointing to studies it says disprove a connection. But the lawsuit counters that these studies are outdated, with one parent calling them “a smokescreen to protect Pharma profits.”

The legal filing also highlights older children allegedly injured by vaccines. Sally Rubin of Oakland, California, described her son’s “regressive autism” after routine immunizations at age three. Rubin shut down her business to care for him, calling the ordeal “financially devastating.” Grace Shain’s 15-year-old son, once a star swimmer, developed chronic fatigue and neurological disorders after receiving an HPV vaccine.

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Sources include:

TheEpochTimes.com

FreeNowFoundation.org

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