Mon Nov 29, 2021 – 3:56 pm ESTMon Nov 29, 2021 – 4:50 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a COVID-19 jab mandate that would force all California prison workers to get the experimental shot.
The temporary stay of a lower court’s September ruling was issued Friday by a panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a request to stall the rule, and will remain in place pending an appeal. Fox News reported that the court’s decision last week “also sped up the hearing process by setting a Dec. 13 deadline for opening briefs.”
Initially set to go into effect January 12, the mandate’s enforcement will now be pushed off until at least March when an appeal hearing is set to take place.
The move by the circuit court to stall enforcement of the requirement came after California’s pro-lockdown Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom acted to help the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) fight the requirement, which would have seen all 28,000 of its officers forced to get the experimental injection unless they obtained an approved religious or medical exemption.
The CCPOA had argued in May that “[m]andating universal vaccination of staff … seems at odds with
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