COVID-19 vaccination mandates are facing resistance all over the country, with many workers in both the private and public sectors petitioning the court system to keep themselves from getting their shots .Some of the opposition to these mandates, designed with the intention of curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus, is over a claimed infringement on constitutional rights. That’s the reason given by some of the employees at the St.
reports, who asked a U.S. district judge to temporarily block a mandate requiring them to either get vaccinated or file a request for medical or religious exemption from vaccination by Oct. 1., a 1905 Supreme Court ruling that let the city of Cambridge mandate smallpox vaccinations, as precedent. “Jacobson and its holding have not been overturned by the Supreme Court, and this Court will thus abide by it and its principles,” Bunning wrote, per. “Actual liberty for all of us cannot exist where individual liberties override potential injury done to others.”
A similar conflict has sprung up in New York City, where public school employees—who are currently required to either get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing—are facing a vaccination mandate, set to go into effect early next week. A group of teachers successfully appealed the decision on Friday,G/O Media may get a commission