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Title: Mother Takes Immunization Fight to U.S. Supreme Court
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The Rutherford Institute
URL Source: http://www.rutherford.org/articles_ ... EWS_release.asp?article_id=280
Published: Jul 31, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-07-31 22:49:39 by Eric Stratton
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7/28/2011 From The West Virginia Record TRI IN THE NEWS: Mother Takes Immunization Fight to U.S. Supreme Court
Original article available here.
WASHINGTON - West Virginia mother Jennifer Workman plans to seek relief at the U.S. Supreme Court from state law requiring immunization of her daughter.
The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., announced on July 25 that she would petition for review of an appellate court decision in the state's favor.
A procedural error prevented the Supreme Court from filing the case as of July 28.
Workman asserts an exemption on religious grounds, and further argues that her older child suffers from disorders that began around the time of her vaccinations.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin of Charleston rejected her challenges to the law last year, and Fourth Circuit judges in Richmond affirmed him this March.
"Workman's constitutional challenges to the West Virginia statute requiring mandatory vaccination as a condition of attending school are without merit," they wrote.
They quoted a decision from 1905, that immunization law represented a valid exercise of a state's police power.
They quoted a decision from 1944, that free exercise of religion "does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death."
West Virginia law doesn't allow a religious exemption, but does allow an exemption if a doctor certifies that immunization would be impossible or improper.
Child psychiatrist John MacCallum signed a certificate for Workman in 2007, and Mingo County health officer Manolo Tampoya approved it.
County school superintendent David Dials sought an opinion from acting health and human resources secretary Cathy Slemp, who recommended that he deny the certificate.
In 2009, Workman sued the county board of education, Dials, and the Department of Health and Human Resources.
She stated that her Christian Bapticostal beliefs required her to protect her children from harm and illness.
Defendants moved for summary judgment, and Goodwin granted it.
Fourth Circuit judges found that Goodwin assumed the sincerity of Workman's religion but ruled that her beliefs didn't exempt her.
They rejected her argument that no compelling state interest exists because West Virginia vaccinates against diseases that aren't prevalent.
"On the contrary, the state's wish to prevent the spread of communicable diseases clearly constitutes a compelling interest," they wrote.
Patricia Finn of Piermont, N.Y., represents Workman in association with the Rutherford Institute.
In an interview on July 28, Finn said the Supreme Court didn't file the appeal notice because she had not previously appeared before the Court.
She said she thought she didn't have to enter an appearance because Rutherford Institute lawyers had previously appeared before the Court.
She said she graduated from West Virginia University.
"I am a Mountaineer," she said.
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#1. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Sounds like a good argument to me. After all, Big Pharma has to make big money and the only way to do that is to force ALL children to be immunized, whether the vaccine works or not, whether it's contaminated by rogue viruses or not, etc.... I wonder how many of those judges have Big Pharma stock.
I hope God steps in on this one. Everyone should have the right to protect their children and not have to give in to the evil lie that is vaccines.
Americans have a compelling interest in their children even though you'd think otherwise when you consider how they send them to public schools, let them watch Bevis and Butthead, sign them into slavery through the SS System, and eventually provide their children as fodder material in wars for the wealthy elites and Israel. You fucking people are not only supporting the most criminal element to have ever existed on earth - you're child molesters too. Blaming the courts is just another bullshit session attended by everyone in DENIAL about their own participation. You pay for these scumbag judges you morons. I'm not shittin ya, the NWO must sit in those cigar smoke filled back rooms and laugh hysterically over the success they've enjoyed using your tax dollars to support the murder of our children and others around the world. The courts have an impeccable record of supporting the STATE ... because that's their (real) job. (Or do you still believe in Santa Claus ?) It's time to consider other options besides begging the demons for waivers. Fuck em - give yourself a waiver ! When you look at Barney Fag do you really think that cocksucker has some magical authority over you ? Is he a superior being that should force your children or grand-children into an autistic state or make them asthmatic ? {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{SLAP - SLAP - SLAP }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Wake the fuck up - you do have some rights but ya gotta belligerently claim them, otherwise the elite ghouls will grind your kids into kosher happy meals for the A-RABS and anyone else that says no to their monopoly money !!!! They are not the fucking problem - you are, you retards ! You shop at their stores, you buy their fucked up magazines, you bank with them, and you BAIL THEM OUT WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT STEALING YOUR MONEY, YOUR CREDIT, and YOUR FUTURE - SHUT UP AND BE A SUBMISSIVE - THE STATE IS YOUR FUCKING MASTER !!!!! No more Mr. Nice guy. I'm sick of making excuses for you bunch of pussies. Sure, I love ya but I can't continue to sugar coat your treason. YOU - yeah you, are financing these fucking murderers. You condone their horseshit everytime you vote in a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ELECTION. You are not only killing your own children - you are financing the murder of your neighbors kids too ! Quit lying to yourselves or just admit that you're a government owned zombie without a brain or a conscience.
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat "Workman's constitutional challenges to the West Virginia statute requiring mandatory vaccination as a condition of attending school are without merit," they wrote. They quoted a decision from 1905, that immunization law represented a valid exercise of a state's police power. "They quoted a decision from 1905, that immunization law represented a valid exercise of a police state's power." [fixed]
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Perfect !
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat deleted
The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
They rejected her argument that no compelling state interest exists because West Virginia vaccinates against diseases that aren't prevalent.
#2. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
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#3. To: Eric Stratton, all slaves to the criminal system, that means you too, (#0)
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#4. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin of Charleston rejected her challenges to the law last year, and Fourth Circuit judges in Richmond affirmed him this March.
#5. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#4)
a police state's power." [fixed]
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