VICTORY: New York Judge Strikes Down Covid Vaccine Mandate for FDNY, NYPD & City Workers as 'Unconstitutional'
"What just happened was the judge found that the city's vaccine mandate is unconstitutional. Violates separation of powers... found it to be arbitrary and capricious"...
A New York court on Monday struck down New York City's Covid vaccine mandate for city workers as ‘unconstitutional.’
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ mandate had threatened to put hundreds of NYPD, FDNY and city workers out of jobs for refusing to comply with the authoritarian order, which violated their personal health rights and freedoms.
The victory for Americans’ health freedoms was reported by NYC for Yourself.
"So my name's Chad Laveglia. I'm an attorney who gets to represent these fine men and women over here," the attorney in the case said to NYC for Yourself. "What just happened was the judge found that the city's vaccine mandate is unconstitutional. Violates separation of powers... found it to be arbitrary and capricious. He found the commissioner's order mandating private and public employees to get vaccinated was arbitrary and capricious and it's null-and-void essentially."
"So we just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee, not just sanitation, FDNY, NYPD, Department of Corrections," he added. "For all the brave men and women who have been our first responders and have been brave through all this. You're now free and you should be able to go back to work."
"The case was Garvey et al v City of NY et al, brought by DSNY workers terminated for failing to comply with the mandate," NYC for Yourself reported. "In a 2:30pm hearing in Richmond County Supreme Court, Judge Porzio ruled against the city, praising workers and declaring the mandate arbitrary and capricious."
The DSNY workers who sued after being terminated over NYC’s vaccine mandate and attorney Chad Laveglia celebrated walking out of the courtroom today," outlet added."Judge Porzio ordered them back to work at 6am tomorrow."
Margaret Nichols reported on the judge's ruling striking down the COVID vaccine mandate for all NYC city employees.
“Granting exemptions for certain classes and selectively lifting of vaccination orders, while maintaining others, is simply the definition of disparate treatment.”
From the order: “Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19. Pres. Joseph Biden has said that the pandemic is over," she added. "The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, much like the tactics of current Governor of New York Kathy Hochul in other court rulings, had earlier anticipated the legal defeat and announced that New York City would lift its vaccine mandate for private sector employees effective November 1.
New York City, nonetheless, has been fighting against reinstating those who were earlier fired for refusing to get the jabs, as the Post reported.
“New York City is appealing a court ruling forcing it to reinstate a Staten Island firefighter who lost his job after he opposed the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for religious reasons,” the Post reported.
“The FDNY filed a notice of appeal Monday, shortly after Timothy Rivicci – who won a suit to get his job back earlier this month – said the city should be held in contempt for failing to put him back to work at Engine 158,” the report continued.
“When the judge made his ruling I thought I would finally be getting my life back to normal and I would get to continue the career that I love,” Rivicci told The Post. “With this I thought my financial worries were over as well.”
“However, the city’s refusal to reinstate me has brought me to the brink of foreclosure.”
As the reported noted, Rivicci, who is 31, brought the contempt motion — which also seeks to fine the city $10,000 a day. He argued that officials have defied the ruling from Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio that reinstated him effective Oct. 5.
This is a great victory. I hope as a source of further inspiration, please watch my music video FOREVER FREEDOM BRIGADE, which I wrote a scant few months after the tyranny began.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euL2M7y9uFE
Hopefully this will be the spark that lights a conflagration of lawsuits and righteous victories over moronic tyranny.