A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Oceanside school district from banning a 16-year-old student who provided a doctor's note concluding that the girl shouldn't be fully vaccinated for hepatitis B due to allergic reactions to a previous shot, her family’s lawyer said.

The girl, identified in the family's lawsuit only by the pseudonym Sarah Doe, must be allowed to re-enroll in Oceanside High School, at least for the forthcoming school year, according to a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday by the judge, Gary R. Brown of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip.

The case is being funded by Children's Health Defense , the vaccine-skeptical organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to Michael Kane, of Wantagh, its director of a

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