evidence: Private and public employers will want to reconsider imposing a vaccine mandate the next time a public health crisis occurs. A federal court just ruled against the constitutionality of COVID-19 vaccine mandates — and the ruling is liable to reach well beyond the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. [...] Note: SCOTUS recently vacated three lower court decisions on COVID-19 vaccine mandates because the employers had rescinded their policies. SCOTUS ruled those decisions as moot. LAUSD attempted to argue its policy was moot but failed to sway the 9th Circuit judges. [...] The 9th Circuit didn’t mince words on the school district’s policy — or the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for that matter: "Jacobson held that mandatory vaccinations were rationally related to preventing the spread of smallpox. … [LAUSD employees] allege that the vaccine does not effectively prevent spread but only mitigates symptoms for the recipient and therefore is akin to a medical treatment, not a ‘traditional’ vaccine. Taking plaintiffs’ allegations as true at this stage of litigation, plaintiffs plausibly alleged that the COVID-19 vaccine does not effectively ‘prevent the spread’ of COVID-19."