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Vaccine mandate opponents say they intend to use new CDC guidelines to continue efforts to persuade judges to force officials to prove public health mandates that infringe rights actually produce the stated desired results
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The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals says Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have a 'low bar' to clear in defending their mandates that force government workers to choose between taking the vaccine and keeping their jobs because the orders don't infringe fundamental rights
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In an appellate brief, the workers argued their rights to privacy and bodily autonomy to refuse a vaccine of questionable effectiveness, should be upheld under the same reasoning used by the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a constiutional right to abortion.
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A federal judge said the scientific evidence presented by the plaintiffs in support of natural immunity from COVID only demonstrates there is a scientific debate over vaccines and immunity, not that the government policies are irrational infringements on workers' rights
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Cincinnati Insurance argued the COVID virus didn't physically alter the covered buildings, so there should be no coverage, even though the businesses were forced by Gov. JB Pritzker to reduce operations amid the onset of the pandemic
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A federal judge has explained he recently refused to block the governor and Chicago mayor from forcing COVID-19 vaccinations upon city workers, saying the workers' evidence against the value of vaccines was "slim" and the city's evidence in favor was "substantial."
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A group of Chicago firefighters have filed suit in federal court, arguing COVID vaccine mandates imposed by Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are unconstitutional.
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The paramedics argue the vaccination and testing mandates take no account for natural immunity, violate their rights to "bodily autonomy" and due process, and are unconstitutional.
