Fifteen New York City educators are celebrating a rare victory—a preliminary relief granted by the Second Circuit which will allow their reapplication for a religious exemption for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate. They first asked the district court for emergency relief on Oct. 4, 2021, which was the day that the teachers were going to be removed from school unless they got the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine. The relief was denied by the Southern District Federal Court. They then appealed the denial and made an emergency application for an injunction pending their appeal. A motions panel at the second circuit heard the appeal and gave them the interim relief. The main purpose of interim relief is to keep the parties in a position sufficient to finish the entire case. “In the religious exemption interviews, the NYC DOE (Department of Education) frequently argued that teachers should be denied accommodation …