Missouri AG files class action suit against school districts enforcing mask mandates
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) filed a class action lawsuit against school districts enforcing mask mandates against state law.
The complaint, filed in a Missouri state court, argues that such mandates are “not supported by the science and are an arbitrary and capricious measure.”
He is asking the court to declare the mask mandates “unlawful as to school children.”
“Despite the science, some public school districts require all students to wear a mask on school buses, school property, and while engaging in school activities. These mask mandates are arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable, and unlawful, and such measures are unsupported by data or science,” the complaint states.
The complaint specifically names Columbia Public Schools, the district’s board of education and its members as defendants. The school district began requiring students and staff to wear masks indoors Aug. 16.
The suit also lists as a class “public school districts and their boards of education,” as well as the “superintendents of the public school districts.”
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Missouri doesn’t ban school districts from imposing mask mandates unlike other GOP-led states such as Florida and Arizona. However, guidance released earlier this month states that decisions on mask mandate should be kept at the local level, according to The News Tribune.
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— The Hill (@thehill) August 24, 2021
This is the desperation to be more extreme than the next nutjob in the Missouri GOP Senate race. Wasting taxpayer money to hurt the recovery from a pandemic. The idiocy from the Republican Party is astounding. https://t.co/iNQT96cTKQ
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 24, 2021
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