A lawsuit launched more than two years ago by a group of former Toronto Metropolitan University students over the school’s COVID vaccination policy has been given clearance to proceed.

Ryan O’Connor has been representing 18 students from the university, which was formerly known as Ryerson, since they launched their lawsuit in 2022. Despite the long delay, a judge has now decided that enough evidence exists to move the case to discovery, he told The Epoch Times.
“(TMU lawyers) wanted to appear in court to attempt to schedule a summary judgment motion and have the lawsuit tossed, claiming there was no viable cause for action that the students had against the university,” Mr. O’Connor said.

However, the court decided in February that “this is a case that ought to go through the normal legal process,” he said. He expects the sharing of evidence and oral cross-examinations to begin sometime this summer.

“This is an opportunity to review the university’s evidence and the rationale behind why it decided to adopt the policy it did,” said Mr. O’Connor. “And let’s be clear, they had to adopt a vaccine policy but they were not required to deregister or otherwise discipline students who were not able to be vaccinated for whatever reason.”

He said the more time that passes since the policy was adopted, “the more we’re understanding the risk [of vaccination] far outweighed any sort of reward. We also knew that at the time, the vaccines were not stopping transmission. And the university would have had that evidence at the time the policy was adopted in the fall of 2021.”A lawsuit launched more than two years ago by a group of former Toronto Metropolitan University students over the school’s COVID vaccination policy has been given clearance to proceed.

Ryan O’Connor has been representing 18 students from the university, which was formerly known as Ryerson, since they launched their lawsuit in 2022. Despite the long delay, a judge has now decided that enough evidence exists to move the case to discovery, he told The Epoch Times.
“(TMU lawyers) wanted to appear in court to attempt to schedule a summary judgment motion and have the lawsuit tossed, claiming there was no viable cause for action that the students had against the university,” Mr. O’Connor said.

However, the court decided in February that “this is a case that ought to go through the normal legal process,” he said. He expects the sharing of evidence and oral cross-examinations to begin sometime this summer.

“This is an opportunity to review the university’s evidence and the rationale behind why it decided to adopt the policy it did,” said Mr. O’Connor. “And let’s be clear, they had to adopt a vaccine policy but they were not required to deregister or otherwise discipline students who were not able to be vaccinated for whatever reason.”

He said the more time that passes since the policy was adopted, “the more we’re understanding the risk [of vaccination] far outweighed any sort of reward. We also knew that at the time, the vaccines were not stopping transmission. And the university would have had that evidence at the time the policy was adopted in the fall of 2021.”
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