(READ) Interim court victory for NY health care workers challenging vaccine mandate

The following is an excerpt from an article in The Epoch Times.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of 17 New York state healthcare workers who object to religious reasons to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

The judge said defendants, state officials, failed to adequately explain why workers were denied from religious exemptions to a vaccine mandate imposed in August.

“There is no adequate explanation from defendants about why the ‘reasonable accommodation’ that must be extended to a medically exempt health care worker under 2.61 could not similarly be extended to a healthcare worker with a sincere religious objection,” U.S. District Judge David Hurd, a Clinton nominee, wrote in a 27-page ruling. granting a preliminary injunction and allowing the workers to proceed under pseudonyms. (Continued...)

Read more here in The Epoch Times (subscription may be required):

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/racial-bias-challenge-to-new-york-citys-vaccine-passport-system-rejected-by-federal-judge_4045093.html

Read the ruling here, courtesy of The Epoch Times.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21083800-hurd-order-on-vaccine-mandate