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More Action On the Vaccine Mandate Front including some Good News on the Religious Exemptions/Accommodations

More Action On the Vaccine Mandate Front including some Good News on the Religious Exemptions/Accommodations

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It seems like each day brings new lawsuits and/or decisions on the mandatory vaccination issue. Yesterday, the Sixth Circuit denied the Michigan university’s attempt to stay the district court’s preliminary injunction barring the university from denying student athletes from participating in sports activities because they were unvaccinated Here is the decision. 6thcircuit People opposed to mandatory vaccination and in favor of a strong if not absolute right to a religious exemption will be pleased for many reasons. Lawyers in the…

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Next Week We May Actually Know Something about Whether the Religious Accommodation to the Covid Vaccine is Meaningful

Next Week We May Actually Know Something about Whether the Religious Accommodation to the Covid Vaccine is Meaningful

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I confess to being alittle confused about the meaning and effect of the religious accommodation to the Covid mandate. Let me start by telling you what I do know and what some of you might not know, appreciate or accept. I don’t care what people call it, it is not an exemption, in the sense that if you get one, you necessarily go back to pre-Covid life at your job. Rather, it is an accommodation which employers have to consider…

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The Second Circuit Grants a TRO until the appeal is heard on October 14th

The Second Circuit Grants a TRO until the appeal is heard on October 14th

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The Second Circuit in the We the People health care worker case granted a TRO but it is not a separate or independent TRO. Here is the language of the decision: “Plaintiffs-Appellants move for a temporary injunction pending resolution of this appeal, prohibiting enforcement of New York State’s regulation requiring vaccination of specified healthcare workers. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. See Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S….

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The Oral Argument in the We The People Health Care Workers Case is over; decision pending

The Oral Argument in the We The People Health Care Workers Case is over; decision pending

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The oral argument in the stay of the New York State regulation mandating Covid vaccination (with no religious exemptions) has just finished. The judges took the case under submission, meaning they will issue a decision sometime in the very near future. (I am thinking by the close of business today, or tomorrow at the latest). I learned a couple of new things: First, there are currently three TROs barring enforcement of the regulation, the Northern District federal case as well…

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So What Case is going to be heard at the Second Circuit Tomorrow?

So What Case is going to be heard at the Second Circuit Tomorrow?

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So here’s the deal. We the Patriots as plaintiffs filed two lawsuits in Brooklyn federal court recently. The teachers’ lawsuit challenged the NYC vaccine mandate. The other suit by the group and some health care workers challenged the state vaccine mandate for state health care workers. Here is the complaint in that health care workers’case. show_multidocs(3) The district court denied injunctions in both cases. A circuit court judge on Friday granted a stay or administrative injunction in both cases so…

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All Eyes are on Tomorrow’s Second Circuit’s hearing in Maniscalco v. City of New York (Second Update)

All Eyes are on Tomorrow’s Second Circuit’s hearing in Maniscalco v. City of New York (Second Update)

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29th, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on continuing the stay of NY City’s vaccine mandate for school teachers and other school employees. To recap, the district court denied a preliminary injunction motion on 9/23, but a circuit judge issued a stay of the vaccine mandate the next day to allow a three-judge panel to consider the matter. So right now there is a stay of the mandate until the…

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Some Really Good News on the Religious Exemption Front

Some Really Good News on the Religious Exemption Front

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After yesterday’s tough news about the denial of Ken Stoller’s writ, I thought I’d share some promising news that just came across my computer. A Michigan federal just has just issued a TRO barring a University from stopping four female athletes from participating in collegiate sports after the University denied their religious exemption requests. The school had denied the requests essentially because of the dangers of the Delta variant and that it couldn’t take the chance to let the unvaccinated…

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Ken Stoller’s Appeal/Writ DENIED!

Ken Stoller’s Appeal/Writ DENIED!

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I just received a copy of the judge’s decision. Our writ/appeal was denied. The judge rejected all our arguments, like he did when the case was presented to him at the initial hearing back in March. He seemed to have forgotten or changed his mind about the issues and questions he had about the Board’s order at the second hearing in late July. I have no real insights as to what happened, other than the obvious that we’re going through…

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Status of the UC COVID Vaccine Mandate Cases

Status of the UC COVID Vaccine Mandate Cases

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There might be some misinformation circulating about the status of the injunction actions against the UC COVID vaccine mandates. I am not involved in either of the two cases against the UC of which I am aware, but for what it’s worth, here is what I know and what I think. 1. The Frontline Doctors lawsuit: There is no injunction against the UC in this case. Per previous posts, the motion for preliminary injunction was denied. That denial was affirmed…

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Update On the UC COVID Mandate Challenge filed by Frontier Doctors

Update On the UC COVID Mandate Challenge filed by Frontier Doctors

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As expected, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied emergency relief seeking to reverse the district court’s denial of the preliminary injunction to stop the UC’s COVID vaccine mandate for members of the UC community who already had the disease. The thinking behind the lawsuit was that having a narrow group of plaintiffs who already had the disease, given the lack of definitive evidence that vaccinating these folks is needed or creates a significant proven benefit, might at least get…

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