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Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation

Oct. 13, 2021

Unions, states, counties are COVID mandate battlegrounds

Students who didn’t want to get COVID-19 vaccinations faced a stiff hurdle, especially after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied review of students’ and employees’ challenge to Indiana University’s requirement.

Unions, states, counties are COVID mandate battlegrounds
A vaccination site at El Sereno Recreation Center in Los Angeles. (New York Times News Service)

Lawsuits against universities challenging requirements that students get COVID-19 vaccines are falling by the wayside.

But the political and legal battles in some sectors of the workforce -- pitting federal against state power and testing the clout of unions representing law enforcement, firefighters and airline pilots -- are heating up.

A challenge by two students at Loyola Marymount University was dismissed by ...

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