The US Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Friday refused to prevent New York City’s needs that teachers and school employees were generally vaccinated against Covid-19.
Sotomayor denied the challenges by four teachers and teaching assistants who tried to stop enforcing vaccine mandates while their lawsuit challenged the policy to continue in a lower court.
Public school system workers are ordered to be vaccinated by 5 P.M.
EDT (2100 GMT) on Friday or face is placed on an unpaid leave until September 2022.
Safe! You have succeeded in voting your votelogin to see the government results and private entrepreneurs have embraced the vaccine mandate to guard the spread of Covid-19 at work when they try to return to the normal level after a disturbance related to the Coronavirus pandemic which starts the last year.
The mandate has become a flame point in the United States, with opponents including those in New York City saying their constitutional rights violated.
New York City Mayor Bill De Balio, a Democrat, announced on August 23 that all 148,000 staff in the largest US school district will be asked to submit evidence of at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
After a lower court to temporarily block the size – order since being appointed – the deadline was pushed to October 1.
About 1 million students attend city public schools.
Sotomayor rejects emergency requests without offering an explanation or referring to this problem to the court nine full members.
His decision reflects one by justice Amy Coney Barrett in August denies the offer https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-courts-barrett-indiana-mandat-mandat-2021-08- 12 by Universitas Indiana students to block The school vaccine mandate.
Sotomayor handles the case for the Supreme Court because he is justice assigned to handle emergency requests arising from cases in countries in the region that includes New York.
De Blasio said in television interviews on Friday that 90% of the employees of the city education department were vaccinated with at least one dose, including 93% of teachers and 98% of the principal.
New York teachers filed a class action proposed at the Brooklyn Federal Court last month, claiming that vaccine mandates violated their rights to the process of maturity and equivalent protection based on the law under the 14th amendment of the US Constitution.
The mandate disturbs their freedom to pursue the profession they choose and discriminate against them because other city workers can choose out by taking a weekly Covid-19 test, teachers said.
One of the Plaintiffs, Rachel Maniscalco, who taught in the area of ​​Staten Island, expressed concern about the security of the Covid-19 vaccine, while other plaintiffs argue that they must be excluded because they have antibodies from previous Covid-19 infections.
A federal judge and the 2nd circuit court based in Manhattan denied teacher efforts to stop the mandate, pushing their appeal to the Supreme Court.
Maintaining the mandate in a lower court, the city noted that the court had long been holding on that vaccine mandate did not violate constitutional rights.
“Place bluntly, the Plaintiff does not have a substantive legal process to teach children without being vaccinated against dangerous infectious diseases,” said lawyer for the city.