Volume 875 — Federal Reporter, Third Series

Nikolao v. Lyon, 875 F.3d 310 (6th Cir. 2017), is a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressing the scope of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment in the context of religious exemptions to vaccination mandates. The plaintiff, a Catholic, objected to Michigan's procedures for claiming a religious exemption to school vaccination mandates, which required the parent to meet with public officials who unsuccessfully sought to persuade the parent that the official position of the Catholic Church favored vaccination. The district court dismissed the constitutional claims, and the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal, finding that there was no injury supporting legal standing to sue, since the exemption was ultimately granted.