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NEW YORK (77WABC) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied the request for an emergency injunction against the New York City school vaccine mandate for teachers and staff.
NEWS: Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied the request for an emergency injunction against @NYCSchools vaccine mandate. We were at 90% employees vaccinated today, will share final numbers Monday!
— Danielle Filson (@DanielleFilson) October 1, 2021
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied the request for an emergency injunction against @NYCSchools vaccine mandate,” Danielle Filson, Press Secretary for Mayor de Blasio, wrote in a tweet. “We were at 90% employees vaccinated today, will share final numbers Monday!”
In a last ditch attempt yesterday, four plaintiffs argued for an emergency injunction that would block the city from removing unvaccinated teachers from schools at the end of Friday. They sent the request to Sotomayor, who handles emergency requests from New York.
According to officials, educators who do not have religious or medical exemptions and decline the shot will be put on unpaid leave with health insurance or leave the DOE with severance pay. Mayor de Blasio has argued that the mandate will safeguard against coronavirus outbreaks in the nation’s largest school system.
