10th Circuit Won’t Rehear Ruling Affirming Dismissal Of COVID Masking Policy Suit

( June 18, 2026, 8:10 AM EDT) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc filed by a student who was suspended for repeatedly defying her school’s COVID-19 masking policy after a panel of the court affirmed the judgment of a Wyoming federal court dismissing the lawsuit alleging that the student’s suspension was a violation of her First and 14th Amendment rights....