, alleging they were either wrongfully fired or face termination despite filing for religious exemptions to the district’s employee coronavirus vaccination mandate, want a judge to order the mandate rescinded because they maintain it is no longer needed.are a mix of school safety officers, police officers, police detectives, senior police officers, a lieutenant, a sergeant and a school safety officer sergeant.
In their court papers, LAUSD attorneys maintain the plaintiffs’ causes of action are barred by the statute of limitations and that their lawsuit should be dismissed. In August 2020, the district adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all employees, including the plaintiffs, requiring all workers to be vaccinated by a deadline date or face being fired. In court papers filed Wednesday with Judge Jill Feeney, the plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary injunction directing the district to rescind the vaccination mandate.
“The act complained of by plaintiffs is the flagrant and continued implementation of a COVID vaccine mandate initially put in place in accordance with state and county health orders that are no longer in place,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers argue in their court papers brought in advance of a scheduled Aug. 16 hearing on the issue.
“The medical consensus at this point in time is that being vaccinated against COVID-19 does not preclude one from acquiring COVID-19, but rather lessens the symptoms for the unvaccinated,” the suit filed in January 2022 states. “The district disregarded, out of hand, all religious beliefs, and enforced their policy to the detriment of the plaintiffs,” the suit alleges.