Public Health Law and Ethics
Acobson v. Massachusetts (pg. 146 in your text) is the seminal case on the state or local
government’s power to regulate to protect the health of the public.
Write a summary of the facts and the legal holding in that case (use this template) and, using the Jacobson court’s
language,explaining how the principles outlined in Jacobson are – or are not – relevant in current
litigation cases on non-medical vaccination exemptions, including the case in the assigned
reading, FF v. State of NY.
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