by Ashley Sadler, LifeSite News:
‘The vaccine mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance,’ the judge wrote.
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — A New York state Supreme Court judge on Monday struck down New York City’s “unconstitutional” COVID-19 jab mandate for city workers, ordering that the roughly 2,000 employees terminated for vaccine refusal be reinstated to their full employment and become eligible for back pay.
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“We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee,” Attorney Chad LaVeglia announced outside the Richmond County courthouse in a video shared on Twitter.
#BREAKING Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for City Workers. “It’s null and void,” says attorney @ChadLaveglia. “We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee.” pic.twitter.com/PqqjhfNNCq
— NYCforYourself (@nycforyourself) October 24, 2022
In the 13-page decision handed down October 24, state Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio declared that New York’s health commissioner had “exceeded his authority” by imposing the mandate requiring city employees get the COVID-19 jab as a condition of employment, remarking that “[i]t is time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just” by rolling back the requirement.
Arguing that the mandate was “arbitrary and capricious,” Porzio highlighted Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ executive order earlier this year permitting unvaccinated celebrities and athletes to work in the city while unvaccinated firefighters, police officers, and other public servants lost their jobs.
