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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

Sep. 5, 2019

Vaccine exemption bill passes, legal challenges await

Vocal anti-vaccine activists were unable to stop the passage of a bill cracking down on medical exemptions for school children. But it is a near certainty that some will take their fight against SB 276 to the courts.

SACRAMENTO -- Vocal anti-vaccine activists were unable to stop the passage of a bill cracking down on medical exemptions for school children. But it is a near certainty that some will take their fight against SB 276 to the courts.

"I can all but guarantee that there will be lawsuits, if nothing else just based on the history of what happened after SB 277 passed," said Rick A. Jaffe, a Sacramento attorney who often represents doctors...

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