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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/arizona-ag-sues-biden-administration-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate_3997302.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Arizona AG Sues Biden Administration Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
BY JACK PHILLIPS September 14, 2021

Arizona filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandates that affect federal employees, most healthcare workers, and employees at numerous private businesses—likely the first lawsuit that was filed against the policies.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/federal-judge-blocks-new-york-state-health-care-worker-vaccination-mandate_3997114.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Federal Judge Blocks New York State Health Care Worker Vaccination Mandate
BY MATTHEW VADUM September 14, 2021

A federal judge on Tuesday granted an emergency injunction blocking the state of New York from enforcing a new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

https://www.ntd.com/exclusive-is-covid-deaths-data-being-manipulated-for-profit-doctor-sues-university-over-mandatory-vaccine-policy_679120.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Should people who have recovered from COVID-19 and are naturally immune be expected to get vaccinated?

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of California–Irvine, is adamant that they should not. He’s suing the school system’s president and Board of Regents over its coronavirus vaccination mandate.

“I’m going to be excluded or another natural immune person is going to be excluded from coming to campus, from going to school, or from working at the university because we have immunity that’s conferred by having had the virus [rather than] … immunity conferred by the vaccine,” he said.

In this interview, he explains how certain data being used to justify mandatory vaccination isn’t all that it seems. For example, the numbers on children and adolescents being hospitalized for COVID-19, for example, can be inflated by the way that they’re measured.

Beyond any function they serve in curbing spread of the virus, mandatory measures, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty argues, pose a serious and long-standing danger to people’s basic rights to privacy and freedom.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/federal-judge-blocks-new-york-citys-school-covid-19-vaccine-mandate_4016844.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Federal Judge Blocks New York City’s School COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
BY ZACHARY STIEBER September 25, 2021

New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers and other Department of Education staffers is on pause after a federal judge late Friday granted a request to temporarily block it.

Plaintiffs, a group of teachers, asked for a temporary injunction pending review by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Joseph Bianco, a George W. Bush nominee, in a one-page order granted the request.

The panel will now decide whether to impose an injunction pending appeal or allow the mandate to take effect.

Rachel Maniscalco and three other New York City Department of Education workers sued over the mandate, which was supposed to start on Sept. 27.

They said the order, which requires all workers to show proof they’ve received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, is government overreach, violating the U.S. Constitution’s Due Process Clause. That clause states in part that no state can “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

The right to pursue a profession is a liberty interest and the mandate, which threatens to cost workers who don’t comply with their jobs, interferes with it, the suit said.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-sues-rutgers-university-covid-vaccine-mandate/

Children’s Health Defense Sues Rutgers University Over COVID Vaccine Mandate
The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that Rutgers is working with Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to study and develop their vaccines in on-going clinical trials, and will benefit financially if more people are required to take the shots.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/parents-lawmakers-sue-over-new-yorks-school-mask-mandate_4019197.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Parents, Lawmakers Sue Over New York’s School Mask Mandate
BY PETR SVAB September 27, 2021

A group of New York parents and two local legislators are suing to overturn the state’s requirement for school children to wear masks.

https://abc7chicago.com/united-airlines-employee-sue-sued-over-covid-vaccine-mandate-coroSixty%20Facebook%20groups%20focused%20on%20ivermectin%20discussion:%20reportnavirus/11054722/

United Airlines is facing two separate lawsuits over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

One of the two lawsuits was filed in the U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas. In that suit, the employee alleges that their religious exemption was not accommodated.

Last week, before the mandate went into effect, six employees asked a federal judge to block the vaccination requirement.

The employees, including two pilots and a flight attendant, are accusing the airline of a "pattern of discrimination against employees who requested religious or medical accommodations." They say the airline's approach of putting exempt employees on an indefinite leave of absence means "that they would be effectively terminated."

https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/why-i-am-challenging-in-court-the

Why I am Challenging in Court the University of California’s Vaccine Mandate
I recently filed a suit in Federal court against my employer challenging the constitutionality of their vaccine mandate on behalf of Covid-recovered individuals

Aaron Kheriaty, MD

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/nearly-200-minnesota-healthcare-workers-sue-employers-over-vaccine-mandates_4023825.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Nearly 200 Minnesota Healthcare Workers Sue Employers Over Vaccine Mandates
BY JACK PHILLIPS September 29, 2021

Almost 200 Minnesota healthcare workers sued their employers in a bid to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates at their facilities.

From an email list I'm on:

There are currently no FDA APPROVED tests for Covid. They only have an EUA and according to 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3, the law that regulates EUA products, individuals "have the option to refuse administration of the product." This applies to the injections too.

You have the right to refuse without any consequences!

If your company is threatening you or coercing you into taking the shot or the tests or you will be fired, I say let them fire you. Do not resign. Stand your ground. I believe all of these companies are bluffing. Yes, you might get fired, but you will have a very strong wrongful termination case if they do. And they know this. Especially if you submitted a Religious Exemption.

We really have no choice - they are forcing us to fight back. So get prepared financially, food, water, mentally, and spiritually. It will probably get worse before it gets better.

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US Service Members File Lawsuit Against Department of Defense Over Vaccine Requirement
VACCINESKatabella Roberts Oct 1, 2021

One lawyer who is helping:

https://fltjllp.com/about/#nicole-c-pearson

I don't like Instagram, because you know it's going to collect and report data on political dissidents and they are going to censor it eventually, but here's her Instagram feed:

She’s leading our lawsuit! She’s amazing. Follow her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CUgOc8uPxwf/?utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net


> On Oct 1, 2021, at 11:12 PM, Jen Doctor <jkamhth@gmail.com > wrote:
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-workers-u-s-service-members-sue-biden-admin-over-vaccine-mandates

Federal Workers, U.S. Service Members Sue Biden Admin Over Vaccine Mandates

“Americans have remained idle for far too long as our nation’s elected officials continue to satisfy their voracious appetites for power,” says the lawsuit, filed by a group of plaintiffs including four Air Force officers and a Secret Service agent.

Ten plaintiffs filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington on September 23, seeking for the judge to place an injunction on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates that cover all federal workers and contractors, as well as all members of the U.S. military.

A Virginia-based parent group attempting to oust five Loudoun County School Board members was given a small win after a Loudoun County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday in favor of the organization’s recall petition against a board member who sought to dismiss it.

On Tuesday, a judge denied Loudoun County school board member Beth Barts’ motion to dismiss the case and also removed Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj from the case.

The group Fight For Schools and others have alleged that Barts was involved in a private Facebook group that violated the School Board’s Code of Conduct and other laws after members allegedly tried to attempt to reveal private information about parents and opponents.

Judge Jeanette Irby, meanwhile, ruled that Biberaj should be removed from the case due to a public perception issue, arguing the public may not trust the prosecutor to be impartial.

“I have the utmost respect for Ms. Biberaj … however, if she continued on this case there would never be acceptance on this case,” Irby said, according to local media outlets.

An attorney for Citizens of Leesburg, another plaintiff in the case, cited a Twitter post made by Biberaj in which she shared a letter to the editor published in Loudoun Now that supported the district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work—which is closely aligned with the quasi-Marxist critical race theory that’s now at the center of many heated school board debates across the United States.

Biberaj was also listed as a member of the same private Facebook group in which Barts had belonged—Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun—where members were allegedly sought to reveal private information, or “doxx,” parents and opponents of critical race theory.

The Epoch Times has contacted the Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office and the school district for comment.

Ian Prior, who is involved in the charge to remove Barts from the school board, said he is pleased with the judge’s decision on Tuesday.

“We are ecstatic,” Prior told WJLA. “I can say for months, parents have been asking for a seat at the table. We haven’t been heard by the school board. They haven’t given us that opportunity. The leaders here haven’t stepped up to try to come to resolution about what’s going on in schools, but yesterday the court gave us that seat at the table.”

“I feel like the judge looked at the evidence and made a decision that was right,” Fight for Schools supporter Erin Dunbar, also a parent, said after the hearing, according to Loudoun Now. “I think she’s unbiased. She’s looking at the evidence in front of her and I think she’s actually going to give us a fair trial.”

Earlier this year, when she was censured over her social media activity, Barts said in a statement: “It’s not my job to be liked. It’s my job to ask hard questions, work to provide the best education for our kids, make sure our teachers are paid what they really deserve, and represent the people of Leesburg.”

Her statement came after School Board Vice Chairwoman Atoosa Reaser asserted in March that Barts repeatedly violated the school board’s code of conduct.

Meanwhile, a several-month-long Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office investigation found that social media posts in the private Facebook group did not constitute criminal action, according to local media. The office, as a result, did not pursue criminal charges against any of the members after they received complaints alleging “evidence of organized criminal activity intended to infringe upon 1st Amendment rights and [violations of] certain laws surrounding the crimes of stalking, harassment, and racketeering.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/virginia-judge-hands-victory-to-parents-sides-against-prosecutor-on-school-board-recall_4037593.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Of course! The Prosecutor and School Board, elected officials, on a private forum talking about "Doxxing" parents isn't stalking, harassment, racketeering or unethical behavior covered under some admin statute! THEY are the victim of terrorism and intimidation!

I am going to petition my state representatives to disallow HIV-positive people to enter or travel through the state without proof they are taking appropriate viral-suppressive meds. Also, anyone testing positive for AIDS must submit to contact tracing for any of their partners and quarantine for 14 days while those traces are completed. There will be border checks of their vaccination/treatment status at all roads leading in and out of the state as well at all bus, train and airport terminals.

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/legal/kaiser-complaint-conformed/

Kaiser Complaint
This Lawsuit Challenges Kaiser’S Mandate That All 217,000 Employees Be Vaccinated By September 30, 2021 Or Be Placed On Unpaid Leave.

For those who think lawsuits are the answer:

J&J knew that asbestos was getting into the talcum powder it was selling across America. This was well established through evidence shown in court from internal J&J e-mails. It sold the powder anyways. Women that came down with cancer because of this filed a lawsuit against J&J. Years of litigation came about and J&J filed appeals against the court rulings and lost those appeals. Instead of paying the couple of billion dollars in restitution to the victims, it moved that unit into a subsidiary that declared bankruptcy. Therefore, no money for the victims.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/johnson-johnson-places-talc-injury-claims-bankruptcy

Now in a decent society, the State AGs would get together and file multiple cases of conspiracy to commit murder against the executives and other perps working for J&J. Alas, the justice system in the US is a complete abortion. The state AGs wouldn't think about doing something against the rich and powerful.

Does anyone really think lawsuits will do anything?

Misc says

For those who think lawsuits are the answer:

J&J knew that asbestos was getting into the talcum powder it was selling across America. This was well established through evidence shown in court from internal J&J e-mails. It sold the powder anyways. Women that came down with cancer because of this filed a lawsuit against J&J. Years of litigation came about and J&J filed appeals against the court rulings and lost those appeals. Instead of paying the couple of billion dollars in restitution to the victims, it moved that unit into a subsidiary that declared bankruptcy. Therefore, no money for the victims.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/johnson-johnson-places-talc-injury-claims-bankruptcy

Now in a decent society, the State AGs would get together and file multiple cases of conspiracy to commit murder against the e...

Those are different lawsuits, class action many years after the fact. Again better than nothing, but often they don't yield much. The one above has direct impact immediately as it is being sued over the right to work. You can't push criminal charges if nobody has committed a crime. I think there should be more often criminal charges in those pharma lawsuits, but it's very hard to prove and individuals will always hide behind the company. On the other hand you don't want to stifle business by allowing frivolous criminal charges against small businesses. Not all lawsuits are the same.

https://www.ntd.com/pentagon-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-vaccine-mandates-on-military-federal-employees-and-contractors_689876.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Service members from all five branches of the military, federal employees, and federal civilian contractors have joined in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The 24 plaintiffs “face a deadline under the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs, and have been refused any religious exemption or accommodation,” according to Liberty Counsel, the Christian legal firm that filed the lawsuit.

The lawsuit (pdf), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, lists President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as defendants.

Plaintiffs are asking the court to issue a temporary restraining order (pdf) to prevent the COVID-19 vaccine mandates from taking effect, and ultimately issue an injunction to prevent the Pentagon from enforcing the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Biden on Sept. 9 issued an executive order requiring almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. Regular testing is not an option.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PierreKory/status/1450593135831265281#m

Pierre Kory, MD MPA
@PierreKory
19h
I am now an expert witness (pro bono) in a big lawsuit against a large pharmacy chain responsible for their pharmacists (also named) ILLEGALLY PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE.. by refusing to fill IVM. Hey pharmacists still doing this shit: heads up, they're coming for you
10:42 PM · Oct 19, 2021

The Washington Examiner reports that the conservative American Freedom Law Center is representing families in the school district of Saline, Michigan in a suit seeking an injunction on the DOJ’s “recently announced policy… to use federal law enforcement resources to silence parents and other private citizens who publicly object to and oppose the divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the ‘progressive’ Left that are being implemented by school boards and school officials in public school districts throughout the United States, including in the public schools in Saline, Michigan, and in Loudoun County, Virginia.”

The suit is filed in the District Court of Washington, D.C.

“Plaintiffs believe, and it is the law in many states, including Michigan and Virginia, as well as a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, that it is the natural, fundamental right of parents and legal guardians to determine and direct the care, teaching, and education of their children,” the lawsuit read.

“As parents and concerned citizens, Plaintiffs have a right to publicly object to the divisive, false, harmful, and immoral curricula and policies being advanced by SAS [Saline Area Schools] and LCPS [Loudoun County Public Schools]. This right to publicly criticize SAS and LCPS includes the right to do so vociferously and even stridently,” the group noted.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-parents-suing-attorney-general-over-doj-school-board-memo

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

families in the school district of Saline, Michigan

Hey, I know Saline. Small town not far from where I went to middle school and high school in Michigan.

I'm proud of them for standing up to the DOJ.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/19-states-sue-biden-administration-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate_4077074.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors.

Texas sued individually in a federal court in Galveston. Another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Missouri involves Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Yet another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Georgia, involves Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.

The lawsuits come a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he sued the administration over the same vaccine mandate. As of late Friday, the total number of states suing the Biden administration over the mandate is 19.

President Joe Biden on Sept. 9 issued a far-reaching executive order that requires almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment, including civilian federal employees and contractors. The order goes into effect on Dec. 8. Regular COVID-19 testing isn’t an option, but religious or medical exemptions from vaccination may be granted, according to the order. Contractors that don’t comply may lose out on government contracts.

All 19 states seek to block Biden’s requirement, arguing that the mandate violates federal procurement law and is an overreach of federal power. The states also argue that Biden’s vaccine mandate violates the 10th Amendment that separates the power between federal and state governments; uses federal spending to coerce the states, which is unconstitutional; and did not properly allow for 60 days of public comment.

19 states is more than "several".

But if we don't have rule of law anymore, and I think we do not, the lawsuits don't matter. We have rule by Pfizer and Pfauci alone, no democracy and no independent judiciary.

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

mell says

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

Agreed about the women bit (with very narrow exceptions noted for their exceptional nature).

SCOTUS simply refused to issue an emergency injunction, which isn't great, but it's still winding it's way up the Courts, hasn't been totally tossed out.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

mell says

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

Agreed about the women bit (with very narrow exceptions noted for their exceptional nature).

SCOTUS simply refused to issue an emergency injunction, which isn't great, but it's still winding it's way up the Courts, hasn't been totally tossed out.

True but it doesn't help those getting sacked for now. Yes there have been a few exceptions but while in all male cabinets there is always a decent amount of dissent and application of actual logic and constitutional law in the judicative, womyn 99.99% of the time govern and judge by feelz and herd/partisan impulse. Wish it were different, but kagan, sotomayor et al are completely useless as you know before they hear each case how they will vote

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/louisiana-court-appeal-rules-favor-shreveport-nurses-grants-restraining-order-ochsner-hospital-firing-unvaxxed-employees/

Maybe lawsuits are not the answer.

You may have to wait for an opinion, but you can get a stay in the meantime.

Shenanigans and political courts. More evidence that lawsuits are not the answer.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/vaccine-mandate-lawsuit-lottery/index.html

They are filling suits in a case packing lottery strategy due to the quirky rules regarding challenges to OSHA regulations. They hope a liberal court gets the case rather than a constitutional court.

Shitlibs did not win every court case, they simply filed lawsuits for any and all reason (or no reason at all), but the few they won created precedence.

I cherry picked this episode of Rising with Kim Iversen where she does a very good analysis of the legal arguments presented by the Covid vax mandates. She gives the recent history of court cases and reflects on what the preliminary results might mean. And she cautions that SCOTUS will probably rule strictly on whether corporations and government can or can not impose vaccination requirements, and will leave the danger/effectiveness of the vaccines entirely alone in their reasoning. To that matter, she speculated that Brandon’s mandate will fail, but they’ll uphold the rights of corporations to mandate it.

https://youtu.be/p2wvdUAGzmk

https://reclaimthenet.org/kennedy-mercola-vs-warren-amazon-censorship-first-amendment/

November 13, 2021
Senator Elizabeth Warren is sued for violating First Amendment over Amazon book censorship calls

Yes, having government officials call for censorship does seem like a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

https://reclaimthenet.org/middle-school-teacher-in-massachusetts-sues-after-being-fired-over-facebook-posts/

November 13, 2021
Middle school teacher in Massachusetts sues after being fired over Facebook posts ...

“I don’t think they liked his sort-of conservative speech and the reasons why they fired him were exaggerated, and that’s illegal,” Gagliardi said.

The posts in question were made in the summer of 2020, amid the racial justice protests sparked by the death of George Floyd while in police custody. His posts criticized the idea of “white privilege” and “outward racism.”

In one of the posts, Lioji shared an article from 2019 published by Quillette titled “Why White Privilege Is Wrong – Part 1.” Lioji wrote:

“Anyone who says or writes white male privilege again is a RACIST. I will not condone that kind of racism. So unfriend me if you don’t like it because I am going to unfriend you when I see it. DONE.”

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/112321-12-states-sue-to-end-joe-bidens-covid-shot-mandate

The lawsuit argues that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shot mandate on facilities that receive federal funding for treating patients exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and violates the Social Security Act’s prohibition on regulations that control the hiring and firing of health care workers. It also violates multiple federal laws, the Spending Clause, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

“The Vaccine Mandate causes grave danger to vulnerable persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to protect—the poor, sick, and elderly—by forcing the termination of millions of ‘healthcare heroes,’” the lawsuit reads.

The mandate violates the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution by seeking “to commandeer state-employee surveyors to become enforcers of CMS’s unlawful attempt to federalize national vaccine policy and override the States’ police power on matters of health and safety.”

The mandate targets about a quarter of the nation’s health care workers who have not chosen to get vaccinated, according to CMS.

Along with Montana’s Knudsen, attorneys general from Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia are plaintiffs in the case.

The 12-state coalition filed the lawsuit and motion for a preliminary injunction November 15 in the U.S. District Court for Western District of Louisiana in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit was later consolidated with all other challenges nationwide into the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

https://reclaimthenet.org/teacher-forced-to-resign-after-criticizing-mask-mandates-on-social-media-files-lawsuit/?source=patrick.net

A teacher from South Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the school district board and the superintendent claiming she was forced to resign over a post about mask mandates she made on her personal Facebook account. The lawsuit alleges wrongful termination.

Holly Chapman, a middle school teacher, was an employee of the Berkeley County School District until February this year. She was fired over a video she posted on Facebook criticizing mask mandates.

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/121421-il-health-care-employees-will-seek-damages-from-shot-mandates?source=patrick.net

IL Health Care Employees Will Seek Damages from Shot Mandates
Dec 14, 2021

CHICAGO, IL – Liberty Counsel will ask the federal District Court of Illinois to certify the entire class of health care workers and will seek damages on behalf of those employees who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate by NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Liberty Counsel asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene before the appeal is decided to prevent irreparable harm to NorthShore employees. Even though the Seventh Circuit denied the injunction pending appeal asking for emergency relief, the court granted the motion to expedite the appeal. This denial does not affect the merits of the case. In fact, on November 30, Judge John F. Kness said the plaintiffs are likely to prevail on Title VII and the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act.

In a 27-page decision, Judge Kness stated that NorthShore employees who prevail against NorthShore for its denial of religious exemptions and accommodations will be able to recover money damages including backpay, front pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys fees, and several other forms of damages. Since full compensation is available to those who win against NorthShore, the court concludes that the harms they are facing now are not “irreparable,” as they can be repaired through money damages.

Patrick says

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/121421-il-health-care-employees-will-seek-damages-from-shot-mandates?source=patrick.net

IL Health Care Employees Will Seek Damages from Shot Mandates
Dec 14, 2021

CHICAGO, IL – Liberty Counsel will ask the federal District Court of Illinois to certify the entire class of health care workers and will seek damages on behalf of those employees who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate by NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Liberty Counsel asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene before the appeal is decided to prevent irreparable harm to NorthShore employees. Even though the Seventh Circuit denied the injunction pending appeal asking for emergency relief, the court granted th...

What is "Front Pay"?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/military-members-seek-new-injunction-against-covid-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net

12/16/21
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Military Members Seek New Injunction Against COVID Vaccine Mandates
U.S. military members involved in a lawsuit challenging the military’s COVID vaccine mandate on Dec.10 filed an amended complaint seeking a new injunction after a judge last month rejected the U.S. Department of Defense’s assertion the Pfizer-BioNTech and Comirnaty COVID vaccines are “interchangeable.”