Sotomayor rejects plea from NYC workers who lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine manda
SUPREME COURT Published November 10, 2022 12:00pm EST
Sotomayor rejects plea from NYC workers who lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandate
The case is currently making its way through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, meaning the workers could be waiting months for the court to decide their fate.
Fox News' Bill Mears and Shannon Bream contributed to this report.
Sotomayor rejects plea from NYC workers who lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandate
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday rejected an appeal from New York City workers who are challenging the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The workers include firefighters, teachers, police officers, sanitation workers and others who lost their jobs after the city rejected their request for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine mandate. They filed an emergency application to Sotomayor requesting that the court temporarily stop the city from enforcing the vaccine mandate while the group challenges the city in a lower court.
Sotomayor denied their request without comment and did not consult her colleagues in her decision; she is not required to.
Lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a civil rights law firm representing the workers, said in their filing that while they await a decision from the Second Circuit, their clients "are suffering the loss of First Amendment rights, are facing deadlines to move out of homes in foreclosure or with past-due rents, are suffering health problems due to loss of their city health insurance and the stress of having no regular income, and resorting to food stamps and Medicaid just to keep their families afloat."
"As we write in our emergency application for stay, these city heroes have dedicated their lives to serving their neighbors and keeping their city running safely and efficiently, yet New York City officials suspended and fired them because they cannot take the COVID-19 vaccine without violating their sincere religious beliefs," Bursch told Fox News Digital at the time of the filing. "But for athletes, entertainers and strippers, the city found a way to loosen its mandate."
SUPREME COURT Published November 10, 2022 12:00pm EST
Sotomayor rejects plea from NYC workers who lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandate
The case is currently making its way through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, meaning the workers could be waiting months for the court to decide their fate.
Fox News' Bill Mears and Shannon Bream contributed to this report.
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The workers include firefighters, teachers, police officers, sanitation workers and others who lost their jobs after the city rejected their request for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine mandate. They filed an emergency application to Sotomayor requesting that the court temporarily stop the city from enforcing the vaccine mandate while the group challenges the city in a lower court.
Sotomayor denied their request without comment and did not consult her colleagues in her decision; she is not required to.
Lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a civil rights law firm representing the workers, said in their filing that while they await a decision from the Second Circuit, their clients "are suffering the loss of First Amendment rights, are facing deadlines to move out of homes in foreclosure or with past-due rents, are suffering health problems due to loss of their city health insurance and the stress of having no regular income, and resorting to food stamps and Medicaid just to keep their families afloat."
"As we write in our emergency application for stay, these city heroes have dedicated their lives to serving their neighbors and keeping their city running safely and efficiently, yet New York City officials suspended and fired them because they cannot take the COVID-19 vaccine without violating their sincere religious beliefs," Bursch told Fox News Digital at the time of the filing. "But for athletes, entertainers and strippers, the city found a way to loosen its mandate."
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