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Posted on 10/23/2021 8:58:00 AM PDT by God luvs America
A federal judge has denied a restraining order on Thursday that would have blocked vaccine mandates for up to 125 city employees in South Carolina.
Tom Fernandez and his firm Fernandez Law represented the plaintiffs, 100 of whom are first responders who filed a lawsuit against the cities of Charleston and North Charleston, Charleston County, and the St. Johns Fire District over the mandates.
“They felt that it was nothing short of government coercion to get the vaccine,” Fernandez told The Epoch Times. “We filed a lawsuit in state court alleging their constitutional protections. They did not want the vaccine. They believed it was their religious right to refuse it. They believed it was their right to free speech, right to privacy, and their right to bodily autonomy to not get the vaccine.”
Judge David Norton with the U.S. District Court in South Carolina said in a statement that it’s not the court’s role to impose employer policies that would “best strike a balance of the competing interests of a pandemic that has plagued not just this state or country, but the world, for almost two years.”
“His points he made in his order yesterday were basically regurgitated nightly news talking points,” Fernandez said. “They had no facts. There was nothing substantiative. It was basically, ‘COVID is an emergency and hospitals are full. There are no ventilators available, and that the ICUs have no more beds available.’”
Fernandez said they presented to the court data from local hospitals that showed that COVID-19 infections are on a decline across the state and the nation, with less than half of the ventilators being used, and of those, only 7 percent were being used by COVID-19 patients.
The judge chose those talking points over the constitutional protections of police officers and firefighters, Fernandez said.
Initially, city employees must be vaccinated by Nov. 5, but North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey extended it to Nov. 19 after the ruling.
“This is essential to provide a safe working environment for city employees and to deliver safe and efficient services to our citizens,” Summey said. “The city is hopeful that some plaintiffs, having read Judge Norton’s order, may now wish to comply with the vaccination policy in order to retain employment.”
Many of the employees with whom Fernandez has spoken, he said, “are standing their ground.”
“We have mayors who think it’s only going to be a handful of police officers and firefighters who are going to be terminated,” Fernandez said. “They are going to suddenly find on day one that they are short a large percentage of their department.”
What pandemic?
Courts have no interest in defending liberty.
David Norton is a Grabby Poppy [George H.W Bush] judge, so it’s likely that he’s a globalist stooge.
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It is. I enjoyed reading his rejoinder.
Do not comply. Make them fire you. The people can win this.
Courts have no interest in defending liberty.
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They are the guardians of the Deep State. Challenge the kleptocracy at your peril.
Appeal the ruling, and in the meantime, Do Not Comply.
Notable cases
Norton presided over the criminal case of Michael Slager, a police officer who killed Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in April 2015 after a traffic stop in North Charleston, South Carolina. Scott was fleeing the officer when he was shot five times in the back. Slager pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Scott's civil rights. Norton sentenced Slager to 20 years' imprisonment, a sentence within the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
In July 2017, Norton found that plaintiffs with mesothelioma still needed to prove defendants specifically caused their diseases, even though every exposure to asbestos is unsafe.
On August 3, 2018, Norton ruled that Charleston cannot require that tour guides pass a history test before being licensed.
On August 17, 2018, Norton ruled the Trump administration did not properly seek public input when it suspended protections designed to thwart waterway pollution. Seen as a win for environmental groups, Norton's ruling allows restrictions on development around certain waterways.
On March 11, 2020, Norton ruled that South Carolina cannot ban the mention of same-sex relationships or other LGBTQ+ topics in sex education classes. Norton ruled that the law discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation, violated the Constitution's equal protection clause, and had no rational relations to any legitimate state interest.
Norton's decision will allow schools to include same-sex relationships or other aspects of LGBTQ+ life in sex ed courses but will not require it.
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There may still be a "pandemic" going on, but of what, I'm not exactly sure.
According to data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics (i.e., from death certificate information provided by the individual states) and reported by the CDC, there were 1,542 deaths *involving COVID in the state of South Carolina last month (i.e., September 2021). By way of comparison, there were 601 deaths involving COVID in South Carolina in September 2020 (at which time, of course, no one had been vaccinated). That is an increase of some 157%.
That 1,542 figure was, by the way, the second highest monthly death total in South Carolina since the pandemic began, surpassed only by the 2,103 deaths involving COVID that were incurred in the state in January 2021.
We'll see what October brings, but so far the trend seems to be continuing. For the week ending October 9, 2021, there were 219 deaths involving COVID in South Carolina. For the comparable week a year ago (i.e., the week ending October 10, 2020), there were 91 such deaths. This amounts to a 141% increase for the week ending October 9, 2021, compared to the year before. (The information received by the NCHS tends to lag a bit, so that "219" figure may possibly increase in the coming days as the database is updated.)
If the vaccines work to "prevent death," why are there more deaths involving COVID now -- considerably more, in many cases -- when so many have been vaccinated, compared to last year at this same time, when no one had been vaccinated? This is not a rhetorical question, but I, for one, have only hypotheses and speculation by way of any answer.
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*The CDC defines "deaths involving COVID" in these words: "Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1."
I think it’s more than that. The judge is 75 years old. The elderly have been scared out of their wits.
The reason they can do this is because they can easily replace us with the thousands of illegals crossing our borders! The great reset is upon us !
Have fam in SC, was thinking to drive x-country and spend Thanksgiving with them.
With SC mayors like Summey, it might be best to remain in Seattle.
Charleston v. Seattle
I need better choices.
Obviously you just don’t understand the problem. You see there are people who have not been vaccinated, revaccinated, boosted, scattered and covered. These people are passing the virus onto those who HAVE been vaccinated, revaccinated, boosted, scattered and covered which is causing those people to become infected withe the disease which they were supposed to be protected from by being vaccinated, revaccinated, boosted, scattered and covered. This is causing those people to have to be scattered and covered with dirt in a coffin. I sincerely hope that this explanation will be of some help to you.
Yes, I know many people in their 70s who listen to The Voices On The TeeVee, and are terrified of Da Covid.
“Yes, I know many people in their 70s who listen to The Voices On The TeeVee, and are terrified of Da Covid.
How sad. Perhaps you could send them some information to counter the fear porn they are receiving from the lame stream media?
They're beyond help. :(
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