NEW YORK—Teacher Rachel Maniscalco has been battling New York City’s Department of Education and her own union over the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination since last year. That battle continues to be fought in court.
As reported by The Epoch Times in January, she and thousands of her colleagues who refused to receive the mandated vaccination were put on unpaid leave last fall and were told by the city’s DOE that they’d be terminated on Dec. 1, 2021, if they didn’t obey.
By the end of the year, Maniscalco had filed three lawsuits.
The first—a class action against the city’s health and education departments and the NYC Mayor’s Office that claimed the mandate is unconstitutional—was ruled in favor of the defendants in April….