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Opinion: Yes, You Can Get Some Immunity From Having COVID-19. But No One Should Wait To Get Vaccinated.
A major reason why many Americans remain unvaccinated is the belief that so-called natural immunity protects as well or better than immunity from vaccination. A professor at George Mason University recently filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging that because he...

MSU, WMU Vaccine Requirements Challenged in Court
In a separate case, Jeanna Norris, a 37-year-old MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer, sued university President Samuel Stanley and the Board of Trustees, arguing that she has natural immunity after recovering from COVID-19 late last year. Her...

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...

Athletes, Worker Sue Over Vaccine Rules at Michigan Colleges
The Michigan State plaintiff is Jeanna Norris, 37, a supervisory administrative associate and fiscal officer who said she has natural immunity — confirmed with two recent antibody tests — because she had COVID-19 last November. The complaint seeks class-action status...

College Admin Associate Refuses to Get Vaccine, Sues University for Making It Mandatory
A new class action lawsuit argues Michigan State University (MSU) employees who have already contracted COVID-19 and now have antibodies should not have to get the vaccine to return to work. MSU Administrative Associate and Fiscal Officer Jeanna Norris filed the...

‘Naturally Immunized’ Employee Sues Michigan State University Over Vaccine Mandate
A Michigan State University employee is suing the university over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to a complaint filed in federal court Friday, Aug. 27. Jeanna Norris, a MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer, is suing President Samuel Stanley and the...

MSU Employee Files Lawsuit Over University’s Vaccine Mandate, Claims She Has Natural Immunity
A Michigan State University employee is suing the school over its vaccine mandate, arguing she has “robust immunity” after recovering from a COVID-19 infection. In the federal class-action lawsuit filed, Jeanna Norris, a 37-year-old administrative associate and fiscal...

Michigan State University Employee Sues Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
A Michigan State University employee filed a lawsuit against the university challenging its vaccine mandate for students, faculty and staff. Jeanna Norris, a supervisory administrative associate and fiscal officer at MSU, said she has a natural immunity to COVID-19...

Cattle Producers Appeal Mandatory RFID Case Against USDA
In an opening brief filed in late August, cattle producers asking the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court’s dismissal of their case involving USDA’s failed attempts to mandate radio frequency identification (RFID) on all adult cattle moving...

Here’s What Renters Can Expect After the End of the Federal Eviction Ban
The federal eviction ban, which protected millions of struggling renters while frustrating landlords across the country, has ended for the second time in just four weeks. On Thursday, the Supreme Court blocked the latest eviction moratorium, writing in an unsigned,...

Supreme Court Ruling Allows Evictions to Resume
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium, ending protections even as only a small amount of emergency assistance has been distributed to at-risk renters. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction ban, which applied...

States, Localities Slow on Distributing COVID-19 Rental Assistance
Landlords and tenants are calling on states to speed up distribution of federal funds for rental assistance after the Treasury Department announced Wednesday that just over 10% of the funds Congress allocated for needy tenants during the coronavirus pandemic has been...

George Mason University Professor Speaks Out After Challenging Anti-Science Vaccine Mandate
George Mason University Professor Todd Zywicki isn’t a pushover to anti-science COVID-19 policies. Zywicki has natural immunity to the virus, and thanks to his own hard work and that of his legal team, Zywicki has been granted a medical exemption from his employer’s...

‘The choice between vaccination and incarceration is not really a choice at all’: Legal experts SLAM New York judges for ‘troubling’ and ‘dangerous’ decision to order defendants to get COVID-19 shots as part of plea deals and bail conditions
Legal experts and the American Civil Liberties Union have criticized a pair of New York judges for ordering defendants to get vaccinated if they want to make bail or be granted a plea deal. The ACLU slammed the decisions as 'troubling' and one lawyer even called the...

University Caves On Vaccine Lawsuit But Questions Remain
On August 17, 2021, George Mason University granted a medical exemption to a law professor who sued after the school issued its vaccine requirement to work and live on campus. The plaintiff, Professor Todd Zywicki, claimed that his naturally acquired immunity should...

Weekly New York Real Estate
ACROSS THE RIVER — “Landlord group asks NJ Supreme Court to reverse security deposit ruling,” by The Real Deal’s Sasha Jones: “Garden State landlords aren’t giving in after a New Jersey court ruled that residents can use their security deposits to pay rent. In July,...

Landlord Group Asks NJ Supreme Court To Reverse Security Deposit Ruling
Garden State landlords aren’t giving in after a New Jersey court ruled that residents can use their security deposits to pay rent. In July, an appeals court upheld an executive order from Gov. Phil Murphy that allowed struggling tenants to use their security...

GMU Exempts Professor from COVID Vaccine Mandate Following ‘Natural Immunity’ Lawsuit
A George Mason University (GMU) law professor who sued the school over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate was granted a medical exemption by the school on Tuesday. The Washington Examiner reports Todd Zywicki, the law professor at the Fairfax, Virginia, school said he had...

George Mason University Grants Professor Exemption From COVID Vaccine Mandate After Lawsuit Filed
George Mason University has granted a medical exemption from its COVID-19 vaccination mandate to Todd Zywicki, a professor at the university’s Antonin Scalia Law School who filed a lawsuit against the mandate two weeks ago. In a news release, the New Civil Liberties...

Citing Religion, Health and Even Personal Preference, Some Are Challenging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates at Work
Todd Zywicki had the coronavirus in March 2020, and the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School professor says if the vaccine was available then, he would have gotten it to avoid getting sick. But now that it’s easily obtainable, and his employer is...

Professor Beats George Mason University’s Vaccine Mandate, Asserted ‘Natural Immunity’ in Lawsuit
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of GMU law professor Todd Zywicki and accused GMU’s vaccine mandate of being unconstitutional for coercing Zywicki to receive unnecessary medical care. NCLA, which is a non-partisan, nonprofit civil...

Professor Granted Vaccine Exemption After He Sues University to Recognize Natural Immunity
George Mason University granted a veteran law professor a medical exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after he filed a lawsuit demanding recognition of his natural immunity, according to his lawyers. But the Virginia public university has not updated its...

George Mason Grants Medical Exemption to Faculty Member Who Sued Over Vaccine Policy
A 55-year-old law professor at George Mason University who has been fighting the university’s COVID-19 vaccine policy in court received a medical exemption from the university and will not need to be vaccinated. Todd Zywicki contended that he has recovered from...

George Mason Relents, Grants COVID-19 Medical Exemption to Professor
Todd Zywicki, a professor of law who sued George Mason University over its pandemic vaccine requirements, was given a medical exemption by the institution on Tuesday. Zywicki, who was represented in his case by the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance, claimed the...

After Lawsuit, George Mason University Grants Vaccine Exemption to Professor
‘I call on leaders across the country to develop humane and science-based approaches as opposed to one-size-fits-all policies' George Mason University has granted a medical exemption to law Professor Todd Zywicki from its mandatory COVID vaccination policy,...