A Judge Has Thrown Out A Lawsuit Brought By Hospital Workers Over A Vaccine Mandate

[ShazzieB]

Remember the Texas hospital workers who went to court over their employer's covid vaccine mandate? Well, it didn't go so well for them...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 employees at Houston Methodist Hospital who were suing the hospital system over its COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

In a five-page ruling issued Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes upheld the hospital's vaccination policy, saying the requirement broke no federal law.

"This is not coercion," said Hughes. "Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer."
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In his ruling, Judge Hughes called the plaintiffs' claim that currently available COVID-19 vaccines are "experimental and dangerous" an argument that is both false and irrelevant. "Texas law only protects employees from being terminated for refusing to commit an act carrying criminal penalties to the worker," Hughes wrote, adding that the "press-release style of the complaint" fails to specify what illegal acts the plaintiffs were alleged to have been asked to perform.

"Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties," the judge wrote.

The judge also denounced the plaintiffs for equating the vaccine mandate to forced experimentation by the Nazis against Jewish people during the Holocaust. "Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible," Hughes said. "Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death."

More at link: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1006065385/a-judge-has-thrown-out-a-lawsuit-brought-by-hospital-workers-over-a-vaccine-mand
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They actually tried to drag the holocaust into this! The stupid is so far off the charts with these idiots that we need a whole new chart. 😬

[struggle4progress]

1. "It's communism! Next they'll want us to scrub before surgery!"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I liked Judge Hughes' opinion

Link to tweet

[peggysue2]

4. Oh, good Lord!

Another Holocaust defense. This Holocaust analogy is beyond objectionable; it's obscene. It diminishes the true nature of the Holocaust. Comparing a vaccination to the grotesque experimentations of the Nazi regime is just as bad as Majorie Taylor Greene's comparison of masking to the wearing of the yellow Star of David mandate.

All of this nonsense belittles the suffering of Holocaust victims and survivors.

It also proves the defense did not have a legitimate argument.

Shame on all of them--the medical personnel, the lawyers and MTG in perpetuity.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Not only did they bring the Holocaust into it - the lead plaintiff

beleives that the Nuremberg trials preceded the Holocaust. It is unclear whether she believes they were medical trials (the only not-totally-illogical pattern of thought)

Go to around 2:30.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. There is already a lot of case law regarding vaccines

Hospitals have been requiring vaccines for all sorts of diseases for decades. And schools will be allowed to require vaccines too, that is already settled. The anti Vaccine movement of the last few decades has made it to court over and over, you child can be barred from school if they do not have the Measles or Mumps vaccine, it will be no different with the Covid vaccine, we're just not quite to that stage yet.

This has already been litigated in the courts.

[lagomorph777]

7. Hopefully this adds to the pile of precedent.

I feel bad for the hospital system; this seriously damages the reputation of their staff. I'd feel nervous going there, knowing that 117 of the staff are batshit crazy.