Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate

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New York Supreme Court judge on Monday struck down New York Cityโ€™s vaccine mandate, finding the rule to be unconstitutional, arbitrary, and capricious.

Attorney Chad LaVeglia, who announced the verdict outside the Richmond County courthouse, said the mandate was now โ€œnull and void.โ€

โ€œSo, we just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employeeโ€”not just sanitation,โ€ LaVeglia said in a video on Twitter account NYCforYourself.

The ruling strikes down the mandate that saw over 2,000 city workers fired for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine. LaVeglia said the ruling extends to all public workers, including the New York fire department, the police department, and the Department of Corrections.

โ€œFor all the brave men and women who have been our first responders and have been brave through all this are now free, and you should be able to go back to work,โ€ he said.

George Garvey and 15 others who worked at the New York City Department of Sanitation filed the lawsuit on July 20 after they were terminated for failing to comply with the mandate.

Judge Ralph Porzio ruled against the city and found the mandate, which allowed exceptions, to have been an arbitrary and capricious order. He said that Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, โ€œmade a different decision for similarly situated people based on identical factsโ€ in his Executive Order No. 62.

However, there wasnโ€™t anything in the record to โ€œsupport the rationality of keeping a vaccination mandate for public employees, while vacating the mandate for private sector employees or creating a carveout for certain professions, like athletes, artists, and performers.โ€

โ€œThis is clearly an arbitrary and capricious action because we are dealing with identical unvaccinated people being treated differently by the same administrative agency,โ€ Porzio said in his ruling (pdf).

โ€˜No Reasonโ€™ to Terminate for Noncompliance: Judge

The ruling noted that all but one of the 16 petitioners applied for exemptions and received โ€œgeneralized and vague denials.โ€ They remained unvaccinated during the time their exemptions were being processed. Porzio said there was โ€œno reasonโ€ they couldnโ€™t have been allowed to keep working while submitting to COVID-19 testing.

By Caden Pearson

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