Federal Judge Dismisses Unvaccinated Hospital Workers' Lawsuit
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Texas hospital employees filed suit over the requirement that they get the shot or they'd lose their jobs, comparing the vaccine to Nazi atrocities.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by unvaccinated hospital workers in Texas over their employer’s mandatory coronavirus vaccine policy, with the judge calling the suit’s claims “false” and “reprehensible.” In an unprecedented federal ruling on COVID-19 vaccine mandates, U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes on Saturday dismissed claims that workers at Houston Methodist were being unlawfully “coerced” to get vaccinated as part of a medical experiment that the plaintiffs likened to atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. “Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible. Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death,” Hughes said.
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