U.S. Government Settles with Navy Seals Fired for Refusing COVID Shots
U.S. Navy sailors and the Biden administration have reached a settlement in a legal battle that has lasted nearly four years over the Department of Defense (DoD) COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The settlement provides that sailors who refused to take the COVID shots for religious belief reasons will have their record expunged and will be protected […]
Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Against Government for Coercing Social Media Firms to Censor Speech
The states of Missouri and Louisiana, together with three doctors, a health care advocate and a news website, sued federal officials and agencies including Anthony Fauci, MD, FBI special agents, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), State Department and Election Assistance Commission. […]
NJ Court Rules Refusal to Wear a Mask Not Protected by the First Amendment
A federal Appeals Court in New Jersey has ruled that the refusal to wear a mask at a school board meeting did not amount to protected free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Two similar cases were consolidated in this decision by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (hereinafter “Court”). The Plaintiffs […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers Reinstated by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
On Apr. 7, 2022, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana ruled that the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all Federal workers must be reinstated. The 2-1 ruling reversed a lower court order blocking the vaccine mandate for federal workers. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Carl Stewart ordered the lower […]
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Case on Religious Vaccine Exemptions for Deployment of Navy Seals
On Mar. 25, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration allowing the U.S. Navy to consider the COVID-19 vaccination status of military personnel when making deployment decisions. The 6-3 decision overrides a lower U.S. district court decision that had temporarily prevented the Navy from treating deployment of Navy Seals with religious vaccine […]
Universities Face Lawsuits Over Policies That Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine
Michigan State college has to answer in court for its new COVID-19 vaccination mandate that does not exempt individuals who have acquired natural immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus after recovering from the infection. The federal class action lawsuit filed by New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) on behalf of a school employee, who was subject to […]