Man refuses to receive the vaccine
Man refuses to receive the vaccine

Law’s Jessie Hill weighs in on ethics of court-ordered defendant vaccination

Legal scholars skeptical of court-ordered defendant vaccination

Bloomberg: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, raised concerns about fairness over orders by state and federal judges requiring COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of bail or probation. “The big ethical dilemma here is that courts are leveraging the defendant’s vulnerability,” she said. “They are imposing this condition on them because they can and because the defendants are at their mercy.”