(Attorney General’s Office Press Release, September 22, 2026)
BOISE, ID — A federal court dismissed a lawsuit that sought to let a commercial daycare exclude Idaho children based on their parents’ private medical decisions, delivering Attorney General Raúl Labrador and the State of Idaho a complete win in defense of the Idaho Medical Freedom Act.
U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford granted Attorney General Labrador’s motion to dismiss in Le Soleil Child Care v. Labrador, rejecting every claim brought by a Boise-area daycare and three parents who asked the court to strike down the law and let daycares turn away children whose parents decline certain medical interventions like vaccines.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, signed by Governor Little in April 2025, prohibits businesses, schools, and government entities from denying a service, a job, or access to a public building because of a private medical decision a person made for themselves or their child. Businesses remain free to run their operations, and to speak their minds, on every other front.
Le Soleil and three parents sued to strike the law down, asking a federal judge to grant the daycare a right to exclude kids based on their parents’ medical decisions. Judge Brailsford rejected the daycare’s due process and vagueness claims, rejected the parents’ claim that the law burdens their right to raise their children, and rejected the argument that patronizing a daycare counts as protected expressive activity under the First Amendment.
“Parents make medical decisions for their children. A daycare does not,” said Attorney General Labrador. “The Legislature protected that choice in the Medical Freedom Act, and the court upheld it. Daycares can tell parents what they believe about vaccines and health, but they cannot turn a child away because of a parent’s medical decision. That decision belongs to families, and I’m pleased the court agreed.”
You can read the Court’s decision here.
