The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a legal challenge New York healthcare workers brought against the state's vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
on religious grounds.
The high court released its decision on Thursday as the term inched toward its close. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, all part of the conservative majority, had said the Supreme Court should have taken up the case this fall.in which the justices declined to grant an emergency injunction against Gov. Kathy Hochul's order.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate healthcare workers who object to COVID vaccines on religious grounds. The court previously turned away healthcare workers in Maine who filed a similar challenge. The same three justices were in dissent in that case as well.
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