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

Law’s Sharona Hoffman discusses legal and logistical challenges to Biden’s vaccine mandate

‘How do you enforce this?’ Biden’s vaccine mandate to face legal challenges

Fox 8, Cleveland: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said there is legal precedent for vaccine mandates. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court said in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that a Massachusetts city could issue fines for refusing a smallpox vaccination. “I think their authority to do it will be challenged, and then there are enforcement questions,” Hoffman said.