A divided three-judge panel declined to block United Airlines’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate after six employees petitioned the court for an emergency injunction.
U.S. Appeals Court Hands United Airlines Another Vaccine Mandate Victory
United Airlines’ vaccine mandate has gone into effect. Customer-facing employees who have been granted a religious or medical exemption have been placed on unpaid leave on an open-ended basis until the pandemic “recedes.”
In October, the petitioners sought emergency relief in a U.S. District Court in Texas. Judge Mark Pittman provided it, temporarily blocking United’s vaccine mandate while he considered the merits of the case. But in November, he ruled on the merits for United Airlines, upholding its vaccine mandate.
While Pittman was not charitable to United Airlines in his decision, he nevertheless ruled that such requirements were within the purview of an employer and that no employees were forced to take a vaccine against their conscience.
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The petitioners appealed, arguing that United violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by refusing to provide reasonable religious accommodations and was guilty of employment discrimination and retaliation.
Borrowing much of the same logic used by Judge Pittman, a three-judge panel for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans voted 2-1 to reject the request for emergency injunction. The panel will still consider the merits of the case in a subsequent decision.
Judge James Ho, who dissented, argued that monetary compensation, if the plaintiffs later prevailed, was not enough:
“Vaccine mandates like the one United is attempting to impose here present a crisis of conscience for many people of faith. To hypothesize that the earthly reward of monetary damages could compensate for these profound challenges of faith is to misunderstand the entire nature of religious conviction at its most foundational level. And that is so whether the mandate comes from D.C. or the C-Suite.”
Should the United employees lose, they can ask the entire Fifth Circuit to reconsider the ruling and after that, appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, which has the choice whether to take the case or let the circuit decision stand.
CONCLUSION
United Airlines has gained another legal victory, with a conservative circuit court refusing to block its vaccine mandate. While the court will now consider the merits of the case, United’s vaccine mandate lives to see another day.
Judge Ho is a fundamentalist and his legal writing on religious exemptions are more op-eds than judicial opinions. He would permit the rights of parents to burn their teenaged daughter as a witch as long as they claimed a religious rationale for doing so.
For practical purposes, vaccination is essential. For purposes of freedom, choice is better. It’s a balance but the legal system can be about who has money to pay lawyers. Terrible.
Everyone should be smart and be vaccinated, including a 3rd shot. No 3rd shot and you are NOT fully vaccinated. There are other vaccines that are 3 shot vaccines.
Too bad people are stupid.
“People are afraid of being uncool “conspiracy theorists” so they perform amazing feats of mental acrobatics to deny any connection between obviously related events.
The worst offense of twisted “Covid” illogic is the insistence that there is no nexus between the emergence of a pathogen, the preparation by private and state actors to put the “New Normal” into place, & the digital ID system deployed under the pretense of vaccine tracking.
There are people, many of them, who theorize that this is all just a giant coincidence, that “covid” created a genuine need to track every human to ensure he’s pharmaceutically “immune” to a 0.96% IFR flu, at that the various ID tech organically sprang up to fill this need.
Coincidence theorists refuse to believe that powerful organizations have been planning for years to implement the “New Normal”.”
— regrettably, we think you that you are the stupid ones.. sorry.
derek
Absolutely!
College Basketball Player Richard Harward Didn’t Want The Vaccine But Was Forced, Now His Career Is Over
https://thecovidworld.com/college-basketball-player-richard-harward-didnt-want-the-vaccine-but-was-forced-now-his-career-is-over/
You might want to try a real news sources? He had a pre-existing heart condition that his doctors were monitoring. That heart condition probably was a reason that his doctors advocated for him to get the covid vaccination, because contracting COVID would have likely resulted in sever outcomes. So no the shot did not end his career. https://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2021/12/14/byu-center-richard/
well he is personally saying that the shot did end his career, so I’ll go with that. funny how y’all accept these “coincidences” as normal. F-ing crazy AF.
No f-bombs, please.
Fully Vaccinated Are COVID ‘Super-Spreaders,’ Says Inventor of mRNA Technology
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/justin-williams-robert-malone-fully-vaccinated-covid-super-spreaders/
“Children’s Health Defense.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Total anti-vax nut job site. Belongs on alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters.
wrong, but perhaps you’re invested in Pfizer and Moderna and are sad to see that eventually their vaccines will be recalled.
Vatican court judge slams Gates & Soros for using Covid to impose ‘total control’
A German cardinal has sparked controversy by claiming that the coronavirus pandemic has been used by the likes of George Soros and Bill Gates to create a global “surveillance state.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rt.com/news/543138-gates-soros-covid-control-bishop/
corrected link: https://www.rt.com/news/543138-gates-soros-covid-control-bishop/amp/
RT. Russia Today. Yeah, right.
y’all are SO worried about the source brand name but never worry about the content. use google to find another source if you’re so worried about. fucking pussies all over this site.
not new but still relevant: Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke: “Forces of the ‘Great Reset’ have used COVID to advance ‘evil agenda'”
Burke is the founder of The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, former head of the Vatican Supreme Court and patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
According to Burke as he said during a homily, “Then there is the mysterious Wuhan virus about whose nature and prevention the mass media daily give us conflicting information. What is clear, however, is that it has been used by certain forces, inimical to families and to the freedom of nations, to advance their evil agenda. These forces tell us that we are now the subjects of the so-called ‘Great Reset,’ the ‘new normal,’ which is dictated to us by their manipulation of citizens and nations through ignorance and fear.”
Dr. McCullough Describes ‘Sinister Ways’ Doctors Worldwide Are Restricted From Treating COVID Patients
“It seems to me, early on, there was an intentional, very comprehensive, suppression of early treatment in order to promote fear, suffering, isolation, hospitalization and death.”
On the latest episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Dr. Peter McCullough and Joe Rogan discussed the pandemic, COVID vaccines, alternative COVID treatments and what McCullough termed the “mass-psychosis” that’s come over the medical profession amid the COVID crisis.
McCullough, a practicing internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist, and chief medical advisor of Truth for Health Foundation, told Rogan that from the outset of the pandemic, there were a number of sinister ways doctors worldwide were restricted from prescribing hydroxychloroquine — even though the science shows it’s an effective early treatment for COVID patients, and it’s already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat other illnesses.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-peter-mccullough-doctors-worldwide-restricted-treating-covid-patients/
‘I Was Treated Like a Criminal,’ Says Woman Detained for 14 Days in Australian Quarantine Camp
In a recent interview with UnHerd, Australian Hayley Hodgson, who never tested positive for COVID, recounted her experience during her “14-day sentence” at the controversial Howard Springs COVID quarantine facility.
An Australian woman who never tested positive for COVID was detained for 14 days in Howard Springs, an Australian quarantine facility.
Australia has some of the longest and strictest COVID lockdown policies and travel restrictions in the world. The country constructed “quarantine camps,” facilities where people who test positive for COVID, or come in contact with someone who tested positive, are confined.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hayley-hodgson-australian-quarantine-camp-freddie-sayers/
Facebook Admits in Court That ‘Fact Checks’ Are Just Opinion
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/12/13/facebook-admits-in-court-that-fact-checks-are-just-opinion/amp/
Children’s Health Defense is know to be one of largest sources of misinformation on vaccines, even before COVID was a thing, but I’m sure you know that. I don’t think citing RT really helps you out that much either.
Thank you for the ignorant comment. It is not surprising in the slightest.
however, if you actually look at the CONTENT of what CHD posts, and not their dismal reputation — thanks to great folks like you —
like actually READ and STUDY the CONTENT — then you would see what they post is actually NOT disinformation.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the founder of CHD, on the term ‘COVID Misinformation’:
“It’s a Euphemism For Any Statement That Departs From Official Government Policy”
“They Are Engineering Destruction of Democracy Worldwide”
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1459563355803377667
and he’s RIGHT.
WAKE.
THE.
F.
UP.
You’re probably right. I take it back.
Thanks. I apologize for being so harsh but I’m just done with the MSM talking points about RFK and CHD. They do very hard work and very important work and they are demonized simply because they aren’t padding the pockets of big pharma and big gov.
RFK’s new book is number 1 on Amazon and from other retailers and has been in the past month since coming out
https://www.amazon.com/charts/2021-12-12/mostsold/nonfiction
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – November 16, 2021, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author)
Also, please see this text in this quote linked below. Very important. Why are so many of us speaking up when we have so much to lose?
https://i.postimg.cc/wT4Yn31W/82452.jpg
We are only doing this because we care, not because we feel like it.
You, Me, and Julian Assange – The case against not caring.
The case against Julian Assange is not just about Julian Assange. In important ways it’s about you and me.
Unfettered power in anyone’s hands is a threat to everyone’s freedom. And unfettered governmental power is particularly dangerous. Government will not cede power willingly but rather, if allowed to, will expand its authority inch by inch until its citizens in a bewildered state simply notice that power is no longer theirs.
https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/you-me-and-julian-assange
Have you considered laying off the weed for a few weeks or better yet, decades?
I only use concentrated distillate oil at times – mostly weekends, but thanks for yet another pointless comment that adds zero to the MAJOR ISSUES at hand.
Seems likely they’ll seek en banc review at the 5th circuit.
Religious exemptions: for people who worship stupidity.
just hung up with my friend in New England who is 77 and a democrat and has now had three doses. Told me about his colleague who just had his booster, developed blood clots, and passed away. so we might appear stupid to you, but really it’s all on you at this point.
Fortunately, Acura does not manage our public health. Since he/she references coincidence, it’s probably appropriate to mention the coincidence that the hospital wards and mortuaries are filled with the unvaccinated. For real hard scientific insights into viruses, who wouldn’t turn first to those noted virologists Rogan and McCullough. (McCullough is a real doctor, but a cardiologist. My cardiologist sends me to other specialists where issues not related to the heart are concerned. For anyone interested in the full McCullough story, he was terminated by Baylor University Medical Center in February for promoting medical nonsense. In July, Baylor sued McCullough to stop him using the Baylor name. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2021/07/29/baylor-health-sues-covid-19-vaccine-skeptic-and-demands-dallas-doctor-stop-using-its-name/.) But McCullough shows up on Fox, so he must be an expert (as expertise is defined by Faux News). Honda should sue Acura except it’s probably hard to collect a judgment in Moscow.
Countless people have been fired for speaking the truth in the past two years. Meaningless and just proves my point even more. But seeing you want to go there, please debate them merits of each of my other posts, too. It’s truly unbelievable the mass psychosis y’all are under. You really are insistent on bringing down the country and world with it, and that is frightening AF. Legit braindead losers.
Perhaps you could criticize these 16,000 other doctors, too. Will wait.
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16,000 Physicians and Scientists Agree Kids Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccine
COVID vaccines are “irreversible and potentially permanently damaging,” says Dr. Robert Malone, who explains why 16,000 physicians and medical scientists around the world signed a declaration publicly declaring healthy children should not be vaccinated for COVID-19.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/physicians-scientists-kids-should-not-get-covid-vaccine/
Acura, could you find another blog to troll. Thanks
no. speaking the truth for the sake of humanity ≠ trolling
Ironic since NO organized religions in the world ban vaccines for their members. But then truth went out the window on this issue a long time ago.
Totally unrelated, but when searching United award travel for use of Lifemiles, what’s the sweet spot now that will show business availability on Lifemiles? I feel like every search I do comes up empty and what is “saver” award space on United anymore? Help please!
You need to be logged out on united.com and search for X and I space. But even if you find it, LifeMiles often is unable to book as many seats. Often its X – 2, so if United is offering four award seats, LifeMiles will only have access to two.
Thanks Matt! Much appreciated
Acura, how is your addiction to both social media and very high dose weed reflected in your public discourse? All you share is fear based anecdotes. Often from RFK Jr’s vaccine misinformation nonprofit and now.. the Kremlin English language propaganda arm rt news. Is your intention to only misinform the uneducated?
There is truth in E V E R Y T H I N G that I’ve shared. Can lead ignorant horses to water (many of you) but can’t force you to drink. Enjoy the destruction of the greatest country in the world
Capitalizing and adding spaces betwixt letters in the word ‘everything’ is sure to add value to your argument.
How I choose to format my comments is between me, myself, and I. When you’re ready to debate the content of my posts, let me know, otherwise this is pointless like speaking to resident commenter ‘Aaron’ and now you.
What’s to debate? You’re endlessly peddling fear based anecdotes.
AKA the truth. bye fool.
You’re extrapolating negative experiences of individuals, most of whom you’ve never met, to the entire readership of this blog / humankind. You equate correlation with causation from anecdotes. You’re a paranoid fool and a troll.
meanwhile, the comment below says “Acura is absolutely on the mark.”
I’m going with that, but thanks, see ya never!
Acura is absolutely on the mark. #Cash4Capitulation
both grandfathers were in WWII and one received the purple heart. can’t give up, despite it looking bleak