New Orleans mayor, health department sued over COVID-19 vaccine mandates
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More than 100 plaintiffs involved in a lawsuit who live and work in the New Orleans area are suing Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the city's health department, over its vaccine and mask mandates.
"The people of New Orleans and our children have endured nearly two years of unprecedented control from our so-called city leaders," attorney Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue, a partner at the New Orleans-based firm Rodriguez & Arcuri, told Fox News Digital of the complaint. "What started as a temporary means to protect the community from unknown risks of a virus has turned into a circus of mandates that no longer make sense to any rational person. Enough is enough. People all over our great State who live, work, and worship in New Orleans are united in this effort to take back control of their lives and families."
The complaint filed by Rodriguez & Arcuri and attorney Jimmy Faircloth of Faircloth, Melton, Sobel & Bash LLC, on behalf of more than 100 plaintiffs — and counting — accuses the mayor and the health department, including New Orleans Health Director Jennifer Avengno, of causing "social, economic and cultural harm" through ‘authoritarian actions under the pretext of an emergency without end."