<story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC&apos;s fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&amp;system=prod&amp;TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a confusing headline. The judgement here is in NY state court, and pertains to employees of and in the City of New York, which enacted a vaccine requirement for employees of the city and later private employers in the city. Months later, Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC, and he issued an executive order exempting athletes, performers, and artists from the mandate.&lt;p&gt;Petitioners sued, saying that the mandate with the exemptions was essentially arbitrary, and the courts agreed. So what happened here is that Eric Adams sabotaged NYC&amp;#x27;s vaccine mandate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Eric Adams&amp;#x27; &amp;quot;performers and sports players&amp;quot; exemption was specifically to allow Broadway to re-open and to allow Kyrie Irving to play in Brooklyn.&lt;p&gt;The whole thing was a farce anyway so it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></comment>
<story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC&apos;s fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&amp;system=prod&amp;TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a confusing headline. The judgement here is in NY state court, and pertains to employees of and in the City of New York, which enacted a vaccine requirement for employees of the city and later private employers in the city. Months later, Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC, and he issued an executive order exempting athletes, performers, and artists from the mandate.&lt;p&gt;Petitioners sued, saying that the mandate with the exemptions was essentially arbitrary, and the courts agreed. So what happened here is that Eric Adams sabotaged NYC&amp;#x27;s vaccine mandate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spfzero</author><text>Not merely arbitrary. From the decision:
&amp;quot;This Court aggress that the Commissioner cannot enact a term of employment on City employees and has exceeded his scope of authority...&amp;quot;</text></comment>