The tone of the judge sounds familiar.
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Posted on 06/13/2021 8:30:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff receive the experimental COVID-19 shot.
The Houston Methodist Hospital system suspended 178 employees without pay last week over their refusal to get the shot.
Of them, 117 sued seeking to overturn the requirement and over their suspension and threatened termination.
In a scathing ruling Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston deemed lead plaintiff Jennifer Bridges’ contention that the vaccines are “experimental and dangerous” to be false and otherwise irrelevant.
He also found that her likening the vaccination requirement to the Nazis’ forced medical experimentation on concentration camp captives during the Holocaust to be “reprehensible.”
Hughes also ruled that making vaccinations a condition of employment was not coercion, as Bridges contended.
“Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however, if she refuses, she will simply need to work somewhere else. 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 remuneration. That is all part of the bargain,” Hughes concluded.
Jared Woodfill, a Houston lawyer representing Bridges and the other clients, promised an appeal.
“All of my clients continue to be committed to fighting this unjust policy,” Woodfill said in a statement. “What is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.”
Employees had a June 7 deadline to complete their immunization.
In a Tuesday memo, the hospital system’s CEO, Marc Boom, said that 24,947 employees had complied with the jab requirement and that 27 of the 178 others had received the first of a two-dose shot and wouldn’t be fired if they got their second. The rest are subject to termination.
He also wrote that 285 other employees received medical or religious exemptions, and 332 were deferred because they were pregnant or for some other reason.
EVERY hospital employee will know the name of that judge & all of his family members.
Wouldn’t want to be him.
IRRELEVANT??????
MY BODY-—MY CHOICE
I know myself better than anyone else.
Glad I don’t work there.
They would have to fire me.
A “vaccine” so safe you have to force people to take it.
Wanna bet that judge is prochoice??!!
At-will employment goes both ways.
Different sources but on the topic if anyone be interested.
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If all of them leave, that’s quite a chunk of workforce to make up fast.
This judge’s decisions are apparently reversed quite a bit.
I’d be honoed by the firing.
Aren’t nurses in high demand? Walk out as a group...
It is interesting to think about the slippery slope this ruling creates. The ruling is founded on political whims. Will it be possible for businesses in the future to find a judge that agrees with their position to make employees to do something or not so something as a condition of employment.
Sounds like the judge may have got vaxxed and in her fear are projecting..... let’s force people to take the same unvetted medication I did. Misery loves MISERABLE company.
Lynn Nettleton Hughes was appointed by Ronald Reagan on December 17, 1985 and is is now 79 years old.
He is one of the most reversed judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, having been found guilty of behavior revealing a level of bias unbecoming of a Federal judge in multiple cases.
He is still there plugging away after 36 years.
Not that I condone forced vaccinations, but the pro-abortion phrase doesn’t quite fit. Unlike pregnancy, other people can be affected by a virus.
I don’t know about nowadays, but I had to be vaccinated before I could go to first grade back in the mists of time. However, this was on a military base, so I don’t know what civilian schools required. We didn’t have a choice since the government owned us. : )
Those shots you got for school were not Expermental, we’re they?
The tone of the judge sounds familiar.
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Experimental
The judge is senile and/or paid off. The vaccines are allowed under an EUA - EXPERIMENTAL Use Authorization. To say that they are not experimental is to deny the very definition the US FDA applies to them. The judge should be overturned (and then interred). Hey Judge: you don’t deserve to breathe oxygen from the same room as the Plaintiffs — I hope you stop.
Ok, it’s EMERGENCY, not EXPERIMENTAL, but the reason it’s not a regular use authorization is because it’s EXPERIMENTAL, i.e., it has not finished safety trials.
(Still, the judge should quit consuming oxygen...)
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