NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — A three-judge panel has granted a temporary injunction blocking New York state from enforcing its vaccine on public health care workers with a religious exemption.
ABC 7 reports a lawyer for two nurses at Syosset Hospital and another in Syracuse asked judges to intervene arguing it violates their religious rights.
The panel set a hearing for Oct. 14, apparently putting the mandate on hold. Although another judge allowed an injunction on the mandate to proceed until Oct. 12.
Meanwhile, a group of New York City public school employees asked the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to block enforcement of the city's looming mandate arguing it denies employees their due process.
"The executive order threatens the education of thousands of children in the largest public school system in the country and violates the substantive due process and equal protection rights afforded to all public-school employees," their complaint says.
The order is set to go into effect Friday after a state Supreme Court judge intervened allowing the mandate to proceed.
Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the impact the city's vaccine orders have had Thursday as cases, hospitalizations and deaths decrease.
"Vaccination is working," he said during his daily news conference. "Mandates are working. Let's stick with it."
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