US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a lawsuit filed by four New Jersey nurses to challenge a now-scrapped state COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The justices will not examine a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed the nurses’ challenge as moot. During the pandemic, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued an executive order ruling the required health care workers to get COVID-19 shots in order to remain employed. In the Supreme Court’s list of orders released on Monday, the court rejected an appeal in the case, Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Murphy, Gov. of New Jersey, et al. No comment from the justices was provided....