Here’s what happened in New York: In October 2022, CHD sponsored a lawsuit challenging New York’s statewide COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which threw 34,000 out of work and crippled the healthcare system.
In January, we won that lawsuit when a judge declared the mandate for healthcare workers “null, void, and of no effect” and “arbitrary and capricious.”
The state requested and received a stay of the lower court’s decision pending appellate review.
On Wednesday this week, CHD's attorneys were minutes into arguing the case before a New York appeals court when an attorney for the state announced the state’s plan to repeal the mandate — astonishingly claiming that the lawsuit is “moot.”
But the story didn’t end there — the state then requested that the appeals court vacate the January 2023 decision striking down the mandate.
In other words, faced with near-certain defeat, New York State tried to erase our stunning trial court victory.
Here’s what happened in New York: In October 2022, CHD sponsored a lawsuit challenging New York’s statewide COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which threw 34,000 out of work and crippled the healthcare system.
In January, we won that lawsuit when a judge declared the mandate for healthcare workers “null, void, and of no effect” and “arbitrary and capricious.”
The state requested and received a stay of the lower court’s decision pending appellate review.
On Wednesday this week, CHD's attorneys were minutes into arguing the case before a New York appeals court when an attorney for the state announced the state’s plan to repeal the mandate — astonishingly claiming that the lawsuit is “moot.”
But the story didn’t end there — the state then requested that the appeals court vacate the January 2023 decision striking down the mandate.
In other words, faced with near-certain defeat, New York State tried to erase our stunning trial court victory.