A group of doctors and nurses sued the state of New York for not allowing religious exemptions, after the Supreme Court refused to block the vaccine mandate for health care workers.
A health worker is giving Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines at a site in Harlem. KENA BETANCUR is the photographer.
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The Supreme Court denied requests for emergency injunctions in two cases challenging the mandates, which would have required the mandates to allow religious exemptions while arguments over the mandates' legality continued in lower courts.
According to the New York Times, three conservative justices said they would have granted the injunction to block the mandate if the majority opinion was unsigned and without explanation.
Two groups of healthcare providers filed a legal challenge to argue that the state mandate violates their First Amendment rights because it does not exempt staff for religious reasons.
An appeals court refused to block the state mandate after a federal judge ruled against the state in the second case.
The healthcare workers filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ensuring that health care workers who care for our loved ones are vaccine free is critical to keeping New Yorkers safe.
Attorneys for one of the cases didn't respond to a request for comment from Forbes, and the lawyer for the We The Patriots USA case said in a statement to Forbes that he plans to file a petition for the case.
In his 14-page dissent, he said New York's mandate "falters at each step" to show it serves a compelling state interest. Kathy Hochul made comments about unvaccinated people not listening to God and what God wants at a Christian cultural center event in September. The mandate is unconstitutional as applied to these applicants, according to Gorsuch.
The key background.
Cuomo proposed a religious exemption when he announced the healthcare worker vaccine mandate. Cuomo resigned as governor and Hochul struck the exemption. The New York Department of Health requires healthcare workers to be vaccine free if they are in close contact with patients or other employees. In October, the court rejected a similar challenge over a mandate for healthcare workers in Maine, which also did not allow for a faith-based exemption. In October, Justice Sotomayor refused to block a vaccine mandate in New York City, which requires public school teachers and employees to get the shot. The court has allowed vaccine mandates for Indiana University students.
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The groups of doctors and nurses behind the two suits say they are opposed to the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines because of their connections to abortion, as both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were tested in their research phases with a line of cells derived from an aborted fetus in the None of the vaccine doses given to the public contain cells from aborted fetuses, even though Johnson & Johnson applies a different fetal cell line while producing the vaccine.
Maine healthcare workers had their religious exemption challenged by the Supreme Court.
The appeals court refused to put Biden's vaccine mandate back into effect.
