A group of six US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) students are taking the university to court over its Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The lawsuit, filed in the US federal court for the Eastern District of New York, alleges the requirement to get vaccinated or face disenrollment violates the US Constitution's due process clause.

"The right to pursue a profession — particularly one as important to the public good and as revered in civil society as serving in the military — is a liberty interest for which one...