New York City firefighters, police officers, and other government employees who were fired after the city refused their request to be exempted on religious grounds from the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court late on Nov. 2 asking for the mandate to be halted.
It’s unfair that unvaccinated adult entertainers and athletes were exempted from the mandate while other unvaccinated workers were forced into compliance, and were fired if they refused the jab, argues John Bursch, senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a public interest law firm specializing in religious freedom cases that’s bringing the new legal action.
