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A federal judge just ruled against over 100 Houston hospital workers who will be fired if they don't get the COVID-19 vaccine
Business Insider via MSN ^ | 6/12/21 | Michelle Mark

Posted on 06/13/2021 2:56:08 AM PDT by Libloather

A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit from more than 100 hospital employees who sued Houston Methodist over its policy requiring all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The workers alleged in their lawsuit that the hospital was "forcing its employees to be human 'guinea pigs' as a condition for continued employment." They also accused the hospital of violating the Nuremberg Code of 1947, likening the vaccine mandate to Nazi medical experimentation on concentration camp prisoners.

US District Judge Lynn Hughes was not sympathetic to either argument, writing in his order of dismissal Saturday evening that none of the employees were forced or coerced to take the vaccine. He also noted that the hospital cannot violate the Nuremberg Code because it is a private employer, not a government.

"Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible," Hughes wrote. "Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death."

He added that the workers were free to accept or reject a vaccine and that they would "simply need to work elsewhere" if they chose the latter.

"If a worker refuses an assignment, changed office, earlier start time, or other directive, he may be properly fired. Every employment includes limits on the worker's behavior in exchange for his remuneration," Hughes wrote. "That is all part of the bargain."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: corruptjudge; covid; hospital; houston; judgehole; lynnhughes; lynnnettletonhughes; lynnnhughes; reaganjudge; sdtexas; vaccine
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To: Nifster

Flu shots approved by the FDA have been through lengthy clinical trials that demonstrate safety and efficacy. If that’s what we were talking about I would agree with you.

Covid-19 vaccines haven’t been approved by the FDA, they are an experimental vaccine, authorized for emergency use only.

This isn’t a particularly difficult distinction but you have to pay attention.


101 posted on 06/13/2021 7:17:01 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Libloather

Will these judges be responsible for the deaths of these Americans who are faced with losing their job over forced injections? All I know is there are now hundreds of thousands who have violated the Nuremberg Code against forcing participation in experiments on the human body. And losing one’s job to avoid being experimented on is not a valid choice under the Code. What an insane world we live in.


102 posted on 06/13/2021 7:20:10 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Mr Rogers

Threatening to fire an employee if they don’t take an experimental drug.

Does that meet the level of “coercion” in your mind?


103 posted on 06/13/2021 7:22:19 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Mom MD

I am in health care. I have never taken the hepatitis vaccines. I have taken two flu vaccines for different facilities for travel assignments, and refused it other times. I am not taking the covid vaccine and still working.

I don’t know why everything in free Republic world is so all or nothing.

What’s the name for those who take some vaccines, but not others?
We need a name because everyone MUST be categorized and labeled.


104 posted on 06/13/2021 7:26:01 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
I am totally fine with an employer having the right to fire staff over religious objections to a vaccine.

My view is based on very broad principles of freedom and liberty. I should have every right to refuse to hire people for any reason whatsoever — including many reasons that would be considered “illegal” in a totalitarian state.

105 posted on 06/13/2021 7:32:19 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: iontheball

Well. I guess the judge had an opposing view and made a ruling. It was a good ruling. Invoking the Nuremberg code is sinkky a shock and awe argument that is incorrect.

The Reagan appointed judge pretty much appropriately spanked the Nuremberg argument.


106 posted on 06/13/2021 7:32:38 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: roving; Travis McGee

Well you are on here a lot for being a supposed doctor.


Most likely a PharmBot.

Careful pointing out it’s posting on a chat form schedule, though. (Ironic that Travis McGee’s schedule gets mocked, by the bot.)

The next thing you know, your faith will be mocked, too.

Nothing is too low for the FR VaxPatrol.

Doogie Howser episodes...😂😂


107 posted on 06/13/2021 7:33:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Varda
Understanding the constitution and simple laws is a minority position on FR.

LOL. “Anything I don’t like is unconstitutional!”

108 posted on 06/13/2021 7:34:41 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Personally, I think most employers are absolutely crazy to impose a vaccine mandate of ANY kind on their employees -- even if it involves fully approved, "safe" vaccines.

To make it clear, condition of employment at the hospital includes a number of mandated vaccines including the yearly flu and pneumonia shots.

But, I do think you're right, manufacturers are entirely protected for their COVID offerings. If at some point someone brings a case about side effects or long term effects of COVID vaccines, it won't be the government or the manufacturers who face debilitating claims, it'll be employers who mandated employees get the COVID shot.

109 posted on 06/13/2021 7:39:40 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: gas_dr
One of my favorite convenience stores chains in my neck of the woods imposed a “mandate” of sorts on their customers. Basically, it says everyone entering the store who is not vaccinated must wear a mask.

That bothered me — for about ten seconds … because I recognize the right of the business owner to impose these requirements but found it disgraceful that a business I've come to like would do such a thing.

My disgust lasted only ten seconds because I read the sign a second time and noticed something interesting: It doesn’t say anything about a COVID vaccine in particular.

So I walk in and out of there on regular basis. As soon as I picked up on that little nuance I realized that the management of the business establishment doesn’t give a flaming crap about whether or not the customers are vaccinated.

110 posted on 06/13/2021 7:42:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: David Chase
FDA approval. That is the only way an experimental drug becomes a recognized vaccine.

As for it being my opinion, you are dead wrong. Read up and find out on your own, because you will not take my word for it, but you might learn for yourself, that all of these so called "vaccines" have been designated as "For Emergency Use Only" Actually it states For Emergency Use Authorization.

Here, I will even help you:

COVID-19 Vaccines

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Adolescents in Another Important Action in Fight Against Pandemic

Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines Explained

111 posted on 06/13/2021 7:42:25 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kingu
If at some point someone brings a case about side effects or long term effects of COVID vaccines, it won't be the government or the manufacturers who face debilitating claims, it'll be employers who mandated employees get the COVID shot.

EXACTLY.

112 posted on 06/13/2021 7:45:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: gas_dr; Travis McGee

This Judge is an opportunist, a seeker of all the positions of manufactured exaltations.

You look at this resume. He doesn’t know what he is other than he needs to be BIG in his own eyes.

Look at his CV, he’s attached himself to the CFR. All you need to know.

There are two types of Judges:

1. Those that believe in Justice and the Constitution,
2. Those that can’t make it in the private sector.

Seriously, the above is tautological.

This Judge is a Heifer of Justice, branded on his buttcheek with the words .....

KARL EFFING ROVE.


113 posted on 06/13/2021 7:59:11 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: gas_dr
"Precious?"

I'd have expected someone who claimed to have been traumatized by the sight of their patients gasping their lives away in extremis on a ventilator, to have heard about the study already through professional channels.

114 posted on 06/13/2021 8:10:04 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

While I have a respect for you and we have foraged it through communications, please you are over the line on this one. The study I have seen re ivermectin was somewhat muddled, so I am willing to take a look at it from a different perspective.


115 posted on 06/13/2021 8:12:32 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Travis McGee

116 posted on 06/13/2021 8:12:59 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Alberta's Child

How about a legal document stating that those responsible for mandating a “vaccination” be held responsible for any and all reactions from the “vaccinations” for the life of the recipient. Signed and notarized by the responsible partly before the shot or the requirement.


117 posted on 06/13/2021 8:18:51 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: gas_dr
Now do cardiomyopathy in (IIRC) 18-to-24-year-olds. They managed to jigger with the data collection (different time periods used for baseline population vs. the jabbed) for example; to the point that the baseline rate I saw somewhere on FR yesterday, from a study, had (presumably) 95%-confidence intervals on expected number of cardiomyopathy cases in the base population, anywhere from 8 to 83.

That's no longer science, that's blindfolded monkeys (C W I D T?) throwing darts at a dart board.

But another article on FR yesterday, mentioned the rate of cardiomyopathy caused by the jabs was 300 times the base rate.

No, not "300% of", or three times.

Three HUNDRED times.

So much for the "precious" bullsh*t propaganda lie "with a population so large, you'll see effects anyway."

Which lie btw, is a damnable piece of propaganda anyway, since it accepts the mass injection of hundreds of millions of people with an untested experimental gene therapy, under a KNOWINGLY FALSE EUA

(prevalence of Covid deaths 5% of what was lyingly claimed,
using both invalid methodologies for testing (PCR),
which were then misapplied (too many cycles)
and relaxed definitions of infection,
topped off by the very "correlation taken as causation" the trolls lie through their teeth about in connection to the jabs)

The vermin behind this biowarfare-to-get-rid-of-Trump/Great Reset, are using the "Dense Pack" scandal model perfected by the Clintons to evade responsibility.

118 posted on 06/13/2021 8:22:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Freedom4US

There is no “coercion” involved. You CHOOSE to take a job. You CHOOSE to quit. No one forces you to work a given job. If you have the right to quit, then what you decide is WHAT YOU DECIDE!


119 posted on 06/13/2021 8:22:25 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (what you decide!)
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To: Hostage

It will be interesting to see if Gov Abbott chimes in on this.

He continuously does his two-step side-step, trying to keep up with Gov DeSantis.


120 posted on 06/13/2021 8:24:02 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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