Supreme Court rejects legal battle over New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers P3
- Shidonna Raven

- Jul 27
- 1 min read
By Melissa Quinn
Updated on: June 29, 2026
Source: CBS News
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The 2nd Circuit, they said, "permitted compliance with contrary state laws to excuse noncompliance with Title VII. This cannot be the law, and the Nation's Charter demands a different outcome."
But the healthcare facilities argued that state law did not forbid employers from providing any religious accommodation, only "complete exemptions" on religious grounds.
The rule "did not prohibit the healthcare respondents from granting any accommodation whatsoever to petitioners. It merely prohibited the particular accommodation on which petitioners insisted: namely, a complete exemption," they wrote in a Supreme Court filing.
Hochul and other state officials, meanwhile, told the high court that the state's vaccine rule doesn't prohibit all religious accommodations. Instead, it allowed employers to offer options that moved unvaccinated workers into roles that wouldn't expose personnel, patients or nursing home residents to COVID-19 if they were infected.
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