Good News from New York City By Chris Knight (Florida)
Across the West, many law suits against the Covid plandemic elites have been filed, and either dismissed, or failed; a few have succeeded. Only the naïve would think that a judicial system, that has been largely populated by Left wing judges, totally sympathetic to globalist ideologies would take a stand against the status quo, founded upon Big Pharma.
Yet, even so, there have been some great victories, Like Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio, striking down the oppressive New York City vaccine mandate, calling it “arbitrary and capricious” concluding, “it was all about compliance” and not public health. It could be the beginning of a turn against the Covid establishment, especially as feelers are being put out to grant a pandemic amnesty, presumable to stay legal proceedings. Those who do wrong, as was done in the Covid mandates do need to be sued, and sued hard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/
“Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio has struck down the NYC vaccine mandate, calling it “arbitrary and capricious” while explaining, “it was all about compliance” and not public health.
This decision has been widely reported across mainstream and alternative media outlets, and it shows how the “Berlin Wall” of vaccine compliance is crumbling.
Del Bigtree of The Highwire has also recently reported that lawyers are about to file suit in any state that mandates covid-19 vaccines for children. This has become a significant issue after the CDC recently decided to place covid-19 vaccines on the child immunization schedule in order to grant legal immunity to vaccine manufacturers. (These vaccines don’t produce immunity in children, but they do produce legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers.)”
"The New York Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered New York City to reinstate all employees that were fired over their vaccination status, calling the decision to terminate unvaccinated employees an “arbitrary and capricious action.”
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Department of Sanitation employees fired in February 2022 against the City of New York, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York Department of Sanitation, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene David Chokshi, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) in response to the blanket vaccine mandates.
“Though vaccination should be encouraged, public employees should not have been terminated for their noncompliance,” Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio wrote.
“Based upon the Petitioners’ vague denials of their exemptions, the fact they were kept at full duty for several months while their exemptions were pending, the Mayor’s Executive Order granting exemptions to certain classes of people, and the lifting of the private sector mandate, this Court finds the Commissioners Orders of October 20, 2021, and December 13, 2021, as well as the Mayor’s Executive Order No. 62 to be arbitrary and capricious,” the court ruled.
Additionally, the ruling states that backpay must be issued to the fired employees in both the private and public sector.
The court also found Adams and other NYC agencies presented no scientific basis for imposing vaccine mandates on public employees while providing exemptions for certain private professions.
“There is nothing in the record to support 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.”
“This is clearly an arbitrary and capricious action because we are dealing with identical unvaccinated people being treated differently by the same administrative agency,” the court added.
The court also concluded the vaccine mandate was not in the interest of public health, but was meant to establish “compliance,” citing the vaccine’s inability to “prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19” and government’s selective enforcement of the mandates.
“The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance,” the ruling stated. “If it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued. If it was about safety and public health, the Health Commissioner would have issued city-wide mandates for vaccination for all residents.”
Attorney Chad LaVeglia, who represented the petitioners in the lawsuit, said the city’s vaccine mandates are now “null and void.”
“We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee,” LaVeglia told reporters, which includes the “FDNY, NYPD, Department of Corrections, for all the men and women who’ve been our first responders and have been brave through all this are now free and should be able to go back to work.”
New York City has already appealed the ruling, claiming the mandate will “remain in place” in the meantime.
“The city strongly disagrees with this ruling as the mandate is firmly grounded in law and is critical to New Yorkers’ public health. We have already filed an appeal,” a city spokesperson said in a statement. “In the meantime, the mandate remains in place as this ruling pertains solely to the individual petitioners in this case. We continue to review the court’s decision, which conflicts with numerous other rulings already upholding the mandate.”
The ruling marks a resounding vindication for all workers who resisted the unconstitutional mandates during the COVID crisis and signals a major shift against the unconstitutional mandates in general.
This is likely the first of more similar rulings to come in other parts of the U.S.”
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