Classes for the fall semester started this week, and Liberty University lifted building capacity restrictions as well as distancing and masking requirements. Those policies were changed Thursday, with the university instead encouraging masking and social distancing, but did not indicate they would be mandated.
The university's online COVID-19 dashboard showed 159 known active cases among students, faculty and staff as of Friday.Liberty University announced it would be going into a two-week campus wide quarantine amid a spike in COVID-19 cases after the first week of classes. Students at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., congregate while walking around on March 31, 2020.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper said Friday the schools have a strong interest in reducing the spread of the disease. And she found that despite the students' assertion that the policy is"arbitrary or not based in science," the schools"based the decision upon both medical and scientific evidence and research and guidance and thus is at least rationally related to these legitimate interests.
Most students returned to the classroom last week — and the majority of public school students attend districts that are requiring masks. The mask requirements emerged after a judge in Little Rock temporarily blocked a state law that bans mask mandates in schools and public places.
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