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COVID vaccine exceptions class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Bernice Conley filed a class action lawsuit against President Joseph R. Biden and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
- Why: Conley claims Biden violated the civil rights of federal employees forced to abide by his COVID-19 vaccine mandate to keep their jobs at the United States Customs and Border Protection.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
President Joe Biden violated the civil rights, civil liberties, health and wellbeing of federal employees whom he mandated must take the COVID-19 vaccine, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Bernice Conley claims approximately 33,000 federal employees were forced to “inject their persons with a novel vaccine through coercive means” after Biden signed an executive order that put the mandate in place.
Conley argues religious and medical exceptions introduced as a possibility with the mandate were not honored, meaning an employee had 14 days to receive their first vaccination dose.
“Failure to comply with the mandate resulted in discipline, which included removal from the federal service,” the COVID-19 vaccine class action states.
Conley claims federal supervisors who “refused to comply” with the vaccine mandate were also “subject to discipline for insubordination and up to removal from the federal service.”
COVID-19 vaccine mandate should be ‘abrogated,’ class action says
“This mandate infringes on the People’s individual freedoms of Life, Liberty and Property and should be abrogated in order to preserve the basic principles that our founding fathers relied on when drafting the constitution,” the COVID-19 vaccine class action states.
Conley wants to represent a class of United State Customs and Border Protection who were subjected to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate signed by Biden and enforced by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Conley claims Biden and Garland are guilty of negligent misrepresentation and intentional infliction of emotional distress and in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, among other things.
She demands a jury trial and requests injunctive relief along with an award of general damages for herself and all class members.
In September, a judge granted class action status and a preliminary injunction to a group of U.S. Marines arguing against abiding by a COVID vaccine mandate put in place by the Department of Defense.
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The plaintiffs are represented by Gary R. Carlin, Alexander Zaimi and Jose A. Hernandez of the Law Offices of Gary R. Carlin APC.
The COVID vaccine exceptions class action lawsuit is Conley v. Biden, et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-07878, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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I was mandated by Chicago Police Department to be vaccinated in order for me to be able to join. I had passed the written test and was not allowed to proceed with the physical POWER test unless I was vaccinated. I ask if I can bring in a religious exemption and they Denied my request. I was removed from the line of future Chicago Police Officers and asked to leave. Me and another unvaccinated person in the group.