US Supreme Court Makes Vaccine Move

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sort of moved on the reality is that for a span of about two years workers in various Fields Across America were fired because they refused to get a shot however now many of these workers have filed lawsuits against the relevant government agencies who are responsible for the mandates and because the justice system works rather slowly in the country some of these lawsuits are only now beginning to actually get resolved let's go through some of them together starting with the one over in New Jersey right after of course you take a super quick moment to smash those like And subscribe buttons which will force the algorithm to share this video out to ever ever more people now to give you a bit of backstory here in the early part of 2022 the governor of New Jersey Mr Phil Murray he's a Democrat he issued an executive order regarding vaccine compliance I in the state specifically executive order number 283 said among several other things the following quote unvaccinated healthcare workers must obtain their first dose of the primary series of a covid-19 vaccination by January 27th of 2022 all covered workers must provide adequate proof that they are up to date with their covid-19 vaccination by February 28th of 2022 covered workers who are not up to date with their vaccinations or for whom vaccination status is unknown or who have not provided sufficient proof of documentation must be considered non-compliant for purposes of this order and indeed just like many other states Across the Nation New Jersey implemented this vaccine mandate and they began to enforce it in the process firing off many medical staff who refused to get the shot and so amidst this General backdrop four New Jersey based nurses filed a lawsuit against the governor's office arguing that these mandates violate several of their constitutionally protected rights quote the Mandate violates the liberty and privacy rights protected by the 14th Amendment to the the US Constitution including the right to refuse medical procedures and the right to not be medically surveilled by government actors it also violates the equal protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Fourth Amendment prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure and the procedural due process clause furthermore the nurses argued that although the executive order did technically allow for religious and medical exemptions in practice well that was not what was happening instead the nurses wrote in their case quote executive order 283 requires covered settings to allow for for medical and religious exemptions to vaccination however the state of New Jersey itself has mass denied religious exemptions in state institutions stating that accommodating people with religious exemptions would constitute an undue burden on the state because the employees with religious objections to the co 19 injections are a threat to the safety of others and so this was the General argument being made by these nurses however the US District Court in this particular case he ruled against them saying in part that they quote fail to demonstrate likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the executive orders violate their Liberty rights under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment and also they failed to demonstrate immediate and irreparable injury now how exactly it is that losing your job fails to qualify as an immediate and irreparable injury well that's anyone's guess but regardless that is how the Lower Court ruled which is frankly not that uncommon many of these mandate cases they get thrown out in the lower court before getting appealed which is exactly what happened these four nurses they filed an appeal with the third Circuit Court of Appeals however here's where things you can say get a little bit weird in this particular case because as the appeals process was playing itself out vaccine mandates in other states began to fall with the courts in several other states forcing the employers to rehire those who have been fired as well as issue them back pay and so perhaps seeing the writing in the wall in April of this year which is again right in the middle of the appeals process Governor Phil Murphy the governor of New Jersey he issued a new executive order lifting the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and the official reason for why he did this at least according to the governor is because it quote aligns the state of New Jersey with recent updates to Federal requirements and reflects our different circumstances now as compared to the past few years this made it such that the vaccine mandate at issue in this particular case was canceled and several months later the US third Circuit Court of Appeals they dismissed the nurse's case altogether declaring that their lawsuit was now a mood Point given the fact that the New Jersey governor decided to resend the mandate however the nurses did not stop here that's because even though in this particular case the Mandate was done away with they wanted to establish a concrete legal precedent for the future and as such the nurse has filed an appeal all the way up with the US Supreme Court asking the highest court throughout their whole country to take up the case and clarify for the whole nation what powers a governor does and does not have in regards to any future vaccine mandates specifically the nurses argued that regardless of what the lower court in this particular case said quote the vaccine mandate violated their rights under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which encompasses their right to refuse to get a medical procedure and the right to privacy the also said the rule violated the 14th amendment's equal protection Clause however after considering the case for several months just yesterday the US Supreme Court released an unsigned order saying that they will not be taking up the case as you can see up on screen for yourself the order simply says that the petition for review has been denied and it really is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that the US Supreme Court has had the opportunity but has also decided to not take up a challenge to vaccine mandates for instance quote back in 2022 the court declined to hear a challenge by Missouri and nine other states to President Joe Biden's covid-19 mandate that had been issued for healthc care facilities that get federal funds that particular mandate was later rescinded as the public health emergency ended earlier this year and so because of their refusal to take up this new case out of New Jersey well the question of whether or not American Governors have the authority to implement vaccine mandates in the future well that is still up in the air regardless though as we alluded to earlier in the episode when you look at it on a state-by-state basis aside from the reluctance by the US Supreme Court when you look at it state byst state the various vaccine mandates have been getting clawed back with many of them with many of the disenfranchised workers actually receiving compensation in the form of backpay as well as forc re hirings for instance in a separate case over in New York City a judge ruled back in September which is just two months ago that quote the employees who sued the city which were fired by the New York City Department of Education for refusing the co 19 vaccine must be reinstated with pay in that particular case the New York state supreme court judge he ruled that New York City's denial of religious accommodations was capricious it was arbitrary and it was illegal here's part of what he wrote in his order quote this court sees no rational basis for not allowing unvaccinated classroom teachers in amongst an admitted population of primarily unvaccinated students as such the the decision to summarily deny the classroom teachers amongst the panel partitioners based on an undue hardship without any further evidence of individualized analysis is arbitary capricious and unreasonable as such each classroom teacher amongst the panel petitioners is entitled to a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate likewise there was a case over in the state of Illinois wherein you had a group of about 500 healthcare workers file a lawsuit against one of the big Health Systems in the state alleging that the system would not grant them religious exemptions and the Illinois Court ruled in favor of the employees awarding them a cool $10 million legal settlement and you have similar cases playing themselves out across the entirety of this country however the US Supreme Court well they have once again passed on this opportunity to take up this particular type of case a vaccine mandate case leaving the door open for more vaccine mandates sometime in the future if another pandemic were to be declared if you'd like to go through any of the cases that we discussed in today's episode including the details of the case that came out of New Jersey I'll throw all my research notes down in the 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