Judge Ralph Porzio said in a ruling issued last Monday that a New York City Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygeine’s order requiring their workers be vaccinated was “capricious and arbitrary” and had violated the state’s separation of powers doctrine.
The case was filed by 16 employees of the New York City Department of Sanitation who had their employment terminated in October 2021 for failing to comply with a vaccine mandate.
It’s believed the order will also apply to the more than 1,400 city workers who were fired in February for refusing the vaccine mandate.
I reckon there will be a lot more of these rulings at the state and federal level going forward. The vaccine mandate was based on stopping transmission when in fact we now know the vaccines don't stop transmission. They only lessen the severity of the virus.
FYI, in Malaysia, it is not compulsory to take the Covid-19 vaccine, although the MOH strongly encourage it. Having said that, the government on September 30, 2021 did make it mandatory for all federal government employees to be vaccinated, with exceptions only to be allowed on health grounds.
In yesterday's Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Livingston, the former triumphed 3-0.
Inside 10 minutes, Kyogo Furuhashi latched onto a through ball from Greg Taylor on the left hand side of the penalty area and rifled the ball past the Livi keeper and into the top left corner of the net.
In the fifty-third minute, Taylor struck the ball low through a cluster of players, and it went through the keeper's legs.
And then David Turnbull galloped into acres of space and squared for Jota (i.e. João Pedro Neves Filipe), who side-footed into the back of the net in the eighty-seventh minute.
The win saw Ange Postecoglou's side extend their lead at the top of the table to four points over bitter rivals Rangers.
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