Mealey's (December 9, 2022, 4:06 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — California high school students and parents with religious objections to COVID-19 vaccines challenging a school district’s imposition of a COVID-19 vaccination mandate and claiming that the lack of religious exemptions from the mandate violated their rights to free exercise of religion filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seeking review of a federal court judgment dismissing as moot their amended complaint based on the fact that the school had never implemented the mandate....