Couple with high-risk pregnancy leads lawsuit against vaccine mandates after being denied medical exemption

More than 90 plaintiffs including employees from the Washington State Patrol, the Department of Corrections, the state ferry system, firefighters, and health care workers, recently filed suit against Democrat Governor Jay Inslee's vaccine mandates for state employees.

Last month, Inslee ordered all state employees and contractors, K-12 education staffers and health care workers to get fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 or be terminated and lose their benefits.

According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in Walla Walla County Superior Court, the state and local government employees contend that Inslee’s mandate oversteps his...