TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 12, 2021

With news that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee would sign new legislation regulating school mask mandates, Shelby County yesterday asked a federal judge for an emergency ruling on how the new law will affect its mask requirement, the Commercial Appeal reports. Among its provisions, the recently passed legislation would prohibit public schools and governments from requiring masks unless local conditions reach a high level of COVID-19 cases. The county filed the motion yesterday with U.S. District Court Judge Sheryl H. Lipman, who ruled in September that the governor’s executive order requiring school districts to give parents an opt-out of mask mandates violated federal disability law.