The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the federal vaccine mandates imposed curing the Covid-19 pandemic.
The nation’s highest court found insufficient reason to take up the lawsuit, brushing aside arguments that the vaccine mandates infringe on fundamental medical ethics principles like the right to bodily autonomy and informed consent.
Four nurses from New Jersey had petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the state-mandated COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
A decision of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals dismissing the nurses’ challenge as moot will not be reviewed by the justices.
The justices will not examine a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed the nurses’ challenge as moot. In the Supreme Court’s list of orders released on Nov. 13, the court rejected an appeal in the case, Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Murphy, Gov. of New Jersey, et al. The justices did not offer any justification for the case’s dismissal.
Early in 2022, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued an executive order mandating that “unvaccinated covered workers acquire their initial dose of the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccination by January 27, 2022.”
Furthermore, by February 28 of that year, said workers are required to provide “sufficient evidence” of having received all of their vaccinations. Individuals who fail to furnish adequate evidence “should be regarded as noncompliant.”
The lawsuit was filed against the governor’s office by the nurses Mariette Vitti, Debra Hagen, Jamie Rumfield, and Katie Sczesny.
The nurses petitioned the high court for an appeal on the grounds that the vaccination requirement violated their Fourth Amendment rights, which they claimed to include the freedom from medical procedure refusal and the right to privacy. They also claimed that the rule violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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