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Seventh Circuit Refuses to Allow Pseudonymous Appeal in Vaccination Mandate Religious Exemption Case

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From yesterday's order:

Anonymous litigation is generally disfavored, and the plaintiffs have not justified anonymity in this appeal. See OPER. P. 10(a); Doe v. City of Chicago, 360 F.3d 667, 669 (7th Cir. 2004).

The underlying case is Doe 1 v. Northshore Univ. Healthsystem, which I blogged about earlier this month. For more on the general rules of pseudonymity in litigation, see here.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.