Supreme Court rejects NYC teachers’ religious exemption appeal over vax mandate

The enchantment was filed by 15 Division of Training employees, as they claimed New York Metropolis was violating their non secular freedoms by not accepting their claims.
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The Supreme Courtroom on Friday shot down an enchantment from a bunch of New York Metropolis faculty academics who sought to dam a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violated their non secular freedom.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the emergency enchantment on Friday, the identical day because the deadline for metropolis staff to adjust to the mandate or face shedding their jobs.

Sotomayor didn't provide a proof, which is the courtroom’s regular process.

The enchantment was filed Tuesday by 15 Division of Training employees, who claimed the town was violating their non secular freedoms by not accepting their exemption claims.

Town requires that non secular exemption requests have to be backed up by non secular leaders. For instance, the academics stated the town wouldn't settle for an exemption from Catholics as a result of Pope Francis had urged his flock to get their photographs.

The Supreme Courtroom made the choice to not block the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for New York Metropolis academics searching for non secular exemption.

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The enchantment got here after quite a few objections to former Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s vaccination mandate for academics had been struck down. Town did bow to the trainer’s union to permit exemptions for medical or non secular causes.

Mayor Eric Adams stated this week he would go forward with terminating almost 4,000 of the town’s roughly 400,000 municipal staff who had not been inoculated towards the coronavirus.

The academics had been rejected by the Supreme Courtroom throughout an emergency enchantment that occurred on the identical day because the deadline for metropolis staff to adjust to the mandate.

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