Judge Stops Navy from Discharging Any Religious Vaccine Refusers [View all]

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Source: Military.com

Fresh off of a Supreme Court decision that saw his previous vaccine-refuser injunction narrowed, a federal judge in Texas issued a new order Monday that turns the case into a class-action lawsuit and halts the Navy from discharging vaccine-refusing sailors Navy-wide.

In Monday’s order, O’Connor granted the SEAL’s request to broaden the case out to a class action that includes “4,095 Navy service members who have filed religious accommodation requests,” the ruling said. That request was filed in January, according to court records.

Legal experts who previously spoke with Military.com said that it appeared the lawyers for the sailors had intentionally picked a judge who would be more sympathetic to their claims.

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Talked about "activist judges".

So, the military is stuck with folks they can't deploy, but they also can't take disciplinary action against.

During my time in, we always had a small percentage of manpower that was in a transient status. We called them "limp, lame, or crazy", but we accepted the fact that a certain percentage of Sailors weren't deployable at any given moment. Some of the reasons for this were:

Pending medical treatment
Pending legal issues
In a training status like and A, or C school
Temporary Additional Duty for special programs/ops

Turning this into a class action suit is just ridiculous.