North Carolina family can sue over COVID-19 vaccine administered without consent, court rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Because tort injuries are not constitutional violations, the PREP Act does not bar plaintiffs' constitutional claims," he said.
41% : "Through a series of dizzying inversions, it explicitly rewrites an unambiguous statute to exclude state constitutional claims from the broad and inclusive immunity," Riggs said.
40% : Associate Justice Allison Riggs, a liberal who wrote a dissenting opinion, said that state constitutional claims should be preempted from the federal law and criticized the court's majority for a "fundamentally unsound" interpretation of the constitution.
37% : Chief Justice Paul Newby wrote in the prevailing opinion that the law did not prevent the mother and son from suing on allegations that their rights in the state constitution had been violated.

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