After Miyares Legal Opinion, Virginia’s Largest Universities End Student Vaccine Mandates

Peter D'Abrosca, The Star News Network

After Virginia AG Jason Miyares wrote a legal opinion saying vaccine mandates for public

university students are illegal, several of the state’s largest schools have backed off their COVID-19 vaccine requirements. “Absent specific authority conferred by the General Assembly, public institutions of higher education in Virginia may not require vaccination against COVID-19 as a general condition of students’ enrollment or in-person attendance.”