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Court Orders New York City To Reinstate Unvaccinated Employees, Give Backpay
Daily Caller ^ | Oct 22, 2022 | Dylan Housman

Posted on 11/14/2022 2:29:23 PM PST by upchuck

A Staten Island Supreme Court judge ruled Tuesday that New York City cannot fire employees for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, dealing a blow to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ pandemic policy.

Justice Ralph Porzio ordered the city to reinstate all fired employees and grant them backpay, citing the fact that being vaccinated against COVID-19 does not stop an individual from catching or spreading the virus, and thus being vaccinated does not grant enough community-wide benefit to warrant a mandate. The health commissioner “acted beyond his authority” by issuing an indefinite vaccine mandate rather than a temporary one, according to the court.


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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: vaccines
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1 posted on 11/14/2022 2:29:23 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

“, citing the fact that being vaccinated against COVID-19 does not stop an individual from catching or spreading the virus, and thus being vaccinated does not grant enough community-wide benefit to warrant a mandate.”

It is about time.


2 posted on 11/14/2022 2:33:21 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: upchuck

This opens the doors for the next round of lawsuits where all of those who took the Jim Jones Jab as a condition of employment are going to sue for health problems that will dwarf the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund.


3 posted on 11/14/2022 2:34:04 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: upchuck

Sounds like a sane judge..and NY,too.


4 posted on 11/14/2022 2:38:09 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: T.B. Yoits

tptb can convince the Dumb Masses that even with your current state of health, you’re better off with the jab than without. “You’re alive aren’t you?” -Fauve & Co


5 posted on 11/14/2022 2:39:23 PM PST by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Should be able to fill all those empty nursing and doctor positions now, shouldn’t it?


6 posted on 11/14/2022 3:38:08 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
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To: upchuck

old news that has been repeatedly incorrectly reported in the conservative echo chamber and here ... this court order applied only to the 16 sanitation worker plaintiffs that brought the lawsuit ...


7 posted on 11/14/2022 7:24:23 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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