WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday.
A state regulation that allows exemptions on medical but not religious grounds was challenged by workers who said being vaccinated was at odds with their faith.
A divided Supreme Court on Friday left intact a vaccine requirement for Maine health care workers, rebuffing the latest legal challenge targeting COVID-19 vaccination mandates to reach the justices.
Dozens of health care workers have opted to quit, and a hospital in Maine’s second-largest city already curtailed admissions because of a nursing shortage.
The health-care workers have argued that Maine is an “extreme outlier” in allowing only a medical exception for refusing the vaccine, and not an additional one based on religious objection, as they said nearly all other states have done. Three conservative justices dissented from the decision.
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday. Three conservative justices noted their dissents. The state is not offering a religious exemption to hospital and nursing home workers who risk losing their j…
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to block a Maine rule that requires certain health care employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. A group of unvaccinated workers argued that the vaccine mandate violated their religious liberty righ…
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in Maine, which thus went into effect that day. The particularly strict mandate has a
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect on Friday, Oct. 29. The mandate requires all health care workers in the state to be vaccinated against COVID-19, or risk losing their jobs.
