WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court docket declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for well being care employees in New York that doesn’t provide an exemption for non secular causes.
The court docket’s motion follows a call in December through which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. On the time, docs, nurses and different medical employees who mentioned they have been being pressured to decide on between their jobs and non secular beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so once more Thursday.
New York is one among three states, together with Maine and Rhode Island, that don’t accommodate well being care employees who object to the vaccine on non secular grounds.
The court docket had beforehand turned away well being care employees in Maine, who filed an identical problem, with the identical three justices in dissent.
Supreme Court docket gained’t debate a New York vaccine mandate after turning down related case in Maine
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