Name: EXCLUSIVE Courthouse Coverage: Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for DSNY and All City Workers
Uploaded: 2022-10-24T23:45:24+00:00
Duration: 46 min 14 s
Description: At an October 24, 2022 hearing at the Richmond County Courthouse in Staten Island, New York State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porzio ruled in favor of 16 Department of Sanitation (DSNY) workers who sued

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At an October 24, 2022 hearing at the Richmond County Courthouse in Staten Island, New York State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porzio ruled in favor of 16 Department of Sanitation (DSNY) workers who sued the city after being fired for defying NYC’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The judge’s decision in George Garvey et al v. City of New York et al struck the mandate down not only for the 16 named plaintiffs and other DSNY employees, but for all New York City municipal workers. As the plaintiffs’ attorney Chad LaVeglia put it, “We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee.”

Although the city filed an appeal later the same day, LaVeglia said he believes the lack of a clear emergency makes it unlikely to succeed, since the mandates were issued as executive orders on the basis of a state of emergency.