A federal judge in Eastern Washington denied a lawsuit Monday filed by firefighters, state troopers and other state employees to stop the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate proclamation was issued by Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee on Sept. 27, 2021. The proclamation stated that all healthcare, education and state employees must have been fully vaccinated by Oct. 18, or they could be terminated. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Rice denied the motion for a temporary restraining order.
“The Supreme Court has long endorsed state and local government authority to impose compulsory vaccines," Rice wrote in his ruling. "Federal courts have routinely analyzed such cases using rational basis and regularly reject cases similar to this one that challenge vaccine mandates based on free exercise of religion.”
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