A group of New York City’ public school teachers petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to block the city’s vaccine mandate for teachers.
Lawyers for Rachel Maniscalco, Evelyn Arancio, Diana Salomon and Corinne Lynch argued in a 12-page petition to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is the circuit justice for the 2nd Circuit, that the teachers’ rights to due process and equal protection were violated by the mandate.
The petition follows a federal appeals court move to dissolve a temporary injunction against the vaccine mandate earlier this week. New York City public school employees have until 5 p.m. on Friday to comply.
