Connecticut lawmakers try to tip the scales in pending vaccine lawsuit

Connecticut Inside Investigator – Thursday, March 26, 2026
By Marc E. Fitch

Connecticut lawmakers are attempting to thumb the scales in a lawsuit filed against Gov. Ned Lamont and the commissioners of the Department of Health and the Department of Education over the state’s elimination of the religious exemption for school vaccination requirements; a lawsuit that, thus far, does not appear to be going in the state’s favor.

In 2022, Kiera Spillane and two other families filed a lawsuit against Lamont, Commissioner Manisha Juthani, and Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker, alleging the 2021 law that removes parents’ ability to claim a religious exemption to school vaccination requirements violates the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA), a law passed by the State of Connecticut and Congress in 1993, which prohibits any government from substantially burdening and individual’s right to exercise their religion.

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