Tue Sep 12, 2023 – 12:20 pm EDT
NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A group of educators in New York City who were fired for refusing to get the experimental COVID-19 shots will get their jobs back along with back-pay, a judge ruled Wednesday. The decision will only apply to the group of 10 plaintiffs, but could set an important precedent for future lawsuits.
In a 22-page opinion handed down Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Ralph J. Porzio ruled that the decision to “summarily” deny religious accommodation requests was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable,” Fox News reported.
Porzio previously ruled in favor of 16 Department of Sanitation employees who argued the city’s jab mandate was unconstitutional.
In his decision for the case, DiCapua v. City of New York, Porzio ruled that there had been “no rational basis” to justify “the seemingly blanket denial of any religious exemption to all classroom teachers” or barring “unvaccinated classroom teachers in amongst an admitted population of primarily unvaccinated students.”
“As such, the decision to summarily deny the classroom teachers amongst the Panel Petitioners based on an undue hardship, without any further evidence of individualized analysis, is arbitrary, capricious, and
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