Time: 10:30AM – 12:00PM, Friday, September 16, 2022
Location: Van Metre Hall Auditorium
This session will examine issues arising from efforts to obtain exemptions from vaccination based on claimed religious objections. Matters covered will include:
- Constitutionality of public and private mandates not containing religious exemptions
- Assertion that legally required religious exemptions cannot meaningfully be obtained
- Best practices in construction of religious exemption
- Efforts to confirm claims of religious belief
- Vaccination mandates from the perspective of faith communities
Speakers
Roger L. Price, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP (Ret.), and author, When Judaism Meets Science
Shaykh Mustafa Umar, Director of Education and Outreach, Islamic Institute of Orange County
Kathleen A. Curran, Esq. Senior Director of Public Policy, Catholic Health Association of the United States
Richard Hughes IV, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green; Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School