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Biden Vaccine Mandate Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: A group of federal employees lodged a class action lawsuit against President Biden and the Secretary of the Department of Defense Thursday.
- Why: The group says that the recently announced Biden vaccine mandate violates the US Constitution and their religious freedom.
- Where: The lawsuit is pending in federal court in Washington DC and the plaintiffs want to represent federal workers nationwide.
The recently announced Biden vaccine mandate has drawn a class action lawsuit filed by federal workers, including service members and contractors, who say the requirements under the Executive Order violate the US Constitution and their religious freedom.
Nearly a dozen workers lodged the lawsuit, naming President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as defendants. They want to represent Classes of religious or disabled service members, federal employees, and federal contractors who they say will face “adverse employment status,” be denied necessary accommodations, or be unable to obtain employment with the government due to the requirements of the vaccine mandate.
Biden Vaccine Mandate Issued
Earlier this month, President Biden announced that federal workers, including contractors, would be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination. The US Department of Defense has also issued a vaccine mandate for service members.
“We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” Biden said at the time.
The Biden vaccine mandate comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted official approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in August. Three vaccination options had been granted emergency use authorization by the agency in earlier months; however, after an initial surge, vaccination rates fell off.
The federal workers who filed the class action lawsuit take issue with the requirements of the Biden vaccine mandate, alleging that the Executive Order fails to properly accommodate religious or medical reasons for not wanting the shot.
Workers Fight for Religious, Medical Exemptions to Biden Vaccine Mandate
The plaintiffs say that the vaccine mandate runs counter to laws protecting religious freedom in the United States.
“If a Christian comes to an informed and sure judgment in conscience that he or she should not receive a vaccine, then the Christian faith requires that the person follow this certain judgment of conscience and refuse the vaccine,” states the lawsuit.
The federal workers claim that the Biden vaccine mandate fails to take “natural immunity” gained after infection with the coronavirus into consideration, arguing that such immunity is interchangeable with the COVID-19 vaccination — a claim that has been debunked by the Centers for Disease Control which reported that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than their fully vaccinated counterparts, according to Law360.
The workers want a court order stopping the enforcement of the Biden vaccine mandate, as well as others. They join other military members and first responders in Hawaii who have filed class action lawsuits fighting various COVID-19 vaccination mandates in recent months.
Are you required to get a COVID-19 shot under the Biden vaccine mandate? What do you think of the requirement? Tell us in the comment section below!
The plaintiffs are represented by Michael Alan Yoder of his own law office, and Patrick R. Hollingsworth of Hollingsworth & Hollingsworth APC.
The Biden Vaccine Mandate Class Action Lawsuit is Costin et al. v. Biden et al., Case No. 1:21-cv-02484, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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183 thoughts onBiden Vaccine Mandate Violates Constitution, Religious Freedom, Say Federal Workers in Class Action
I was suspended for not getting vaccinated, 12 weeks with no pay. If I don’t get vaccinated by the end of the 12 weeks I’m terminated. I had both religious and medical exemptions. They said their physicians felt I was fine to get the vaccine. I’m sorry but your physicians know nothing about me and my Physician says NO. So I was terminated. I then struggled for 8 months to get a job. Where are all the class action lawsuits against these mandates?? Lost time. Abuse. Attacks. Negative labels. The mandates have been dropped and the places that fire us are expecting us to go back to work for them with no apology. No pay for loss time. NOTHING.
Its getting just as bad with our other human rites also. Who gave the gov the right to tell us (me) what i can and cant do with my body. Did they raise us? Hell no they taxed the crap out of us. I refuse t get the jab. Think they did enough population control dont You?
I work as a Healthcare Vendor and worked through out the ‘Pandemic’ with PPE and precautions. We made adjustments to protect patients. Now, Biden’s mandates for Federal Contract work put me on suspension from my job for an EMERGENCY USE product. This product could lead to death, auto immune disease, Cancer and so much more and they will not allow me to opt out of the experimental MRNA product. At this point it feels nefarious and I no longer feel safe after knowing several people who passed away after receiving it.
I have lost my job as a headteacher in a special needs school in NYC, my ability to complete my master’s degree, and have been denied unemployment. The vaccines that have been rolled out do absolutely nothing, they do not guarantee you from ever getting infected or reinfected, over several pages of adverse events, and yet they state it is safe without knowing the long-term side effects of these vaccines. We are told to get a booster and a second booster and a third, when will the madness end. You let them get away with it, you comply to keep your job and that is why we are in the state that we are in now. Tragic hearing people say “its just a shot”, it is so much more than that.