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A federal judge has struck down a significant part of Montana’s controversial anti-vaccine bill because it is both unconstitutional and conflicts with federal law, dealing another legal defeat to a raft of bills passed by the 2021 Legislature and ultimately struck down by state and federal courts.
House Bill 702 had barred employers from mandating vaccines or requiring employees share their vaccine status. U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy ruled that it was unconstitutional and conflicted with federal law.
Republicans in Montana passed the country’s most extreme anti-vaccination law and a hospital soon became overtaken by COVID. Now a judge has ruled the law went too far.
A federal judge has struck down parts of Montana’s “vaccine discrimination” law, ruling it unconstitutional in regard to employers and employees of health care settings.
A federal judge has ruled that Montana's anti-vaxx law, known as 'House Bill 702' is unconstitutional and should be struck down.