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2nd Circuit Rejects Ex-Xerox Exec’s Challenge To Gag Order
Former Xerox executive Barry Romeril can’t ditch his agreement not to deny accounting fraud allegations as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin...
2nd Circ. Denies Ex-Xerox Exec’s Bid To Toss SEC Gag Order
The Second Circuit said in a published opinion Monday that it could find no legal error or due process violation in an 18-year-old gag order from a former Xerox executive's settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. An appellate panel denied former...
California Colleges and Public Schools Ordering More Vaccine Mandates Than Most Other States
...Other states already have class action lawsuits working through the courts. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a class-action lawsuit challenging Michigan State University’s vaccine mandate for employees with naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19... Read the...
How Massachusetts Annihilated Private Property Rights In The Name Of COVID Restrictions
In the waning days of 2020, as COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts were summiting the highest peak of the pandemic, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts decided that the First Amendment’s Assembly Clause does not protect private assembly by private citizens...
University System of Maryland Among Schools Facing Vaccine Lawsuit
...New Civil Liberties Alliance is involved in other vaccine mandate cases, and Younes acknowledges thus far, courts have been siding with schools. "The employee mandates, so far, have mostly been upheld at universities," Younes said. "I think that things will change...
Court Precedents Appear to Back Biden’s National Coronavirus Vaccine Order, Legal Experts Say
...Jeanna Norris, an MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer who previously recovered from a case of COVID-19, sued administrators over the mandate, saying she received medical advice from her immunologist that she does not need a vaccine. Read the full...
Michigan State Accepts Foreign COVID Vaccines but Rejects Natural Immunity, Lawsuit Alleges
Michigan State University recognizes COVID-19 vaccines not approved for use in the United States with lower documented efficacy than natural immunity, according to a federal lawsuit. It's the second filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) against a public...
2 Women Dated For Years. After It Ended, JMU Said Their Relationship Was ‘Nonconsensual.’
Ten years ago, Alyssa Reid landed her dream job: assistant director of the speech and debate team at James Madison University (JMU). She also became a faculty member of the School of Communication Studies, where she met a student named Kathryn Lese. Lese took Reid's...
Man Can’t Sue IRS Over Crypto Exchange Docs, 1st Circ. Told
A New Hampshire man's efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms are barred by federal law prohibiting suits that could restrain tax collection, the U.S. told the First Circuit. The appeals court should not...
Immunologist Regrets Voting for Biden After ‘Draconian’ Vaccine Mandate
Dr. Hooman Noorchashm argues Americans who have already had COVID and are naturally immune should not be forced to be vaccinated.
Understanding Biden’s New Vaccine Mandate Announcement
The moment that many eagerly awaited — or feared — arrived last week. In a closely watched address, President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new expansion of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The plan, which has a goal of covering about two-thirds of all American workers,...
Top Immunologist Dr. Hooman Noorchashm Regrets Voting for Joe Biden After Vaccine Mandate
...Noorchashm has recently been cited in a lawsuit by a Michigan State University employee who is suing her employer over its vaccine mandate. Jeanna Norris, an administrative associate, also argues those who have COVID-19 antibodies to be exempt from the vaccine...
Biden’s Authoritarian COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Meets Immediate and Fierce Resistance
On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden told unvaccinated Americans he was losing patience with them, and it was their fault other Americans are dying. Then he announced wide-ranging executive action to force public employees and employees of federal contractors to...
Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Could Have a Major Impact on Michigan Workplaces
Calling it a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," President Joe Biden announced a new, sweeping federal mandate Thursday that will require about 100 million American workers to get coronavirus vaccines with hopes of squelching a national surge driven by the delta variant...
Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”
A growing body of research is making it increasingly clear that natural immunity to Covid-19 owing to previous infection is stronger, more durable, and broader than vaccine-induced immunity. Apart from not being unusual among infectious diseases, this fact has...
Biden Outlines Sweeping Vaccine Requirements; Charlie Baker Says No Mandate in Massachusetts
As many as 100 million American workers will be mandated to get vaccines or undergo weekly coronavirus testing as part of a sweeping set of new federal vaccine conditions where President Biden also pressured governors to require vaccines for school teachers. “If these...
Vaccine Mandates Spark Debate over Natural Immunity Exemptions
NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel Mark Chenoweth, Dr. Marc Siegel and Jessica Tarlov joins 'Fox News @ Night' to discuss Biden's push for coronavirus vaccine mandates.
Documenting America’s Path to Recovery #296: September 7, 2021
On Aug. 31, Judge Paul Maloney, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, declined to block Michigan State University’s (MSU) COVID-19 vaccine mandate. MSU employee Jeanna Norris alleged, that she should be exempted from the vaccine...
Charter Captains Are Suing the Government Over New “Anchor Bracelet” Requirement
A group of charter fishermen and boat owners are plowing ahead with a class-action lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule called the “For-Hire Electronic Reporting Amendment” that requires the installation of GPS tracking systems on their boats as well as the...
MSU Sued For Mandating Vaccination For Individuals Who’ve Already Had COVID
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit against Michigan State University over the COVID vaccination policy it announced July 30 for students and staff. Specifically, it objects to the school’s refusal to grant an exception for individuals who already have...
University of California Doctors Challenge Its COVID Vaccine Mandate As ‘Irrational’
A new category of professional has joined the legal challenges to university vaccine mandates: doctors. University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine psychiatrist and medical ethicist Aaron Kheriaty is suing the university system to recognize his natural...
They Suffered Through Covid, and Still Don’t Want the Vaccine
Todd Zywicki, a George Mason University law professor, sued school officials in early August over its vaccination policy and other Covid measures, saying that he shouldn’t have to comply because he’d already had Covid. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which...
‘Go to a Different School’: Lawsuits Against COVID Vaccine Mandates Aim To Challenge Universities
A Western Michigan University soccer player is defending her decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine as she and some of her fellow teammates fight back against the school's policy. The deadline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the plaintiffs fighting the vaccine...
Michigan State Employee Files Lawsuit Due to Vaccine Mandate
Michigan State administrative associate and fiscal officer Jeanna Norris filed a lawsuit against MSU's administration on Friday in relation to the university's vaccine requirement. According to the case of Norris v. Stanley, Norris tested positive for COVID-19, and...
MSU Sued Over Vaccine Mandate
Michigan State University (MSU) employee sued over the school's recently announced vaccine mandate, saying she has naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19 after recovering from the virus last year and doesn’t need the vaccine. Jeanna Norris is a supervisory...