The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been sued by three referees who were fired last year when they refused to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and were denied religious exemptions. The lawsuit alleges the NBA violated the federal civil rights law and New York state and city human rights laws when it forced referees to get […]
Vaccine Mandates
Republicans Demand Answers From Pentagon on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate After Biden Declares Pandemic Over
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are demanding answers from Pentagon on its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after President Biden declared on Sept. 19 that the “pandemic is over.” The letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III follows concerns regarding the legitimacy of the process used to consider religious accommodations and reports unvaccinated […]
Major Defeat for Vaccine Mandates as Judge Rules NY Police Officers Fired Over Refusing COVID Shot Must be Reinstated
The New York Police Department’s largest union experienced a major victory on Friday when a judge ruled police officers fired for refusing to get the COVID vaccine have to be “reinstated to the status they were as of the date of the wrongful action.” In a shocking decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank ruled […]
Judge Strikes Down Federal COVID Vaccine and Mask Mandate for Head Start Program
In a devastating blow to yet another one of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday ruled the government cannot require Head Start program teachers, staff and volunteers be vaccinated against COVID-19, nor can they require that adults and children wear face masks. The jab-or-job mandate affected nearly 280,000 […]
A Master List of Where Colleges Stand on COVID Vaccine Mandates
As students head back to school, many are asking where their college now stands on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Some of the best colleges still mandate COVID vaccines — even though there is no fully approved vaccine available in the U.S. and science shows the vaccine neither prevents infection nor transmission. Other top-tier schools have either […]