Supreme Court Declines to Consider Case Challenging Maine's Vaccine Mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge to Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers.
The lawsuit, filed in August by the Florida-based Liberty Council on behalf of more than 2,000 Maine health care workers, alleges that the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is violating federal law by requiring vaccinations for health care workers without allowing a religious exemption for those who object.
On Tuesday, the justices rejected the group's motion to present oral arguments in the case without comment, per the high court's practice. The high court has rejected two previous requests for injunctions against the vaccine rules.
Maine's Vaccine Mandate
An executive order signed by Gov. Janet Mills, which went into effect in October, requires health care workers in the state to be fully vaccinated against the virus. The requirement includes health care workers in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, firefighters, emerge