COVID-19 Mandates and Constitutional Limits—The Stewart v. Walz Case

In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione are joined by NCLA attorney Jenin Younes to discuss her latest case challenging Minnesota’s COVID-era vaccine mandate. The case, Stewart v. Walz, centers on a public college professor who was fired for refusing the vaccine and later punished for emailing his students about it. Jenin explains how the case challenges the misuse of emergency power, the misreading of the 1905 Jacobson precedent, and the violation of First Amendment rights. With courts beginning to reevaluate the legality of pandemic-era mandates, NCLA is giving the judiciary a new opportunity to get it right.