I saw this comment on telegram, sounds like lawsuit can begin immediately.
So what happened today was a lawsuit heard by the Supreme Court, whether or not private employees can be mandated to get the jab. The Supreme Court ruled against mandating PRIVATE employees. However, it left the door open for them to sue on behalf of health care workers by filing a new lawsuit. Now, health care workers refile citing today's precedence.
From Supreme Court site: https://www.supremecourt.gov
The Court grants the applications to stay the two injunctions barring the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ regulation requiring facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that their employees are vaccinated against COVID–19.
From Justice Thomas, Barnett, and Gorsuch:
These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID–19 vaccines. They are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that Congress gave CMS that broad authority, I would deny the stays pending appeal. I respectfully dissent.
From Justice Alito:
In concluding that CMS had good cause to avoid notice-and-comment rulemaking, the Court shifts the presumption against compliance with procedural strictures from the unelected agency to the people they regulate. Neither CMS nor the Court articulates a limiting principle for why, after an unexplained and unjustified delay, an agency can regulate first and listen later, and then put more than 10 million healthcare workers to the choice of their jobs or an irreversible medical treatment. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.
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