Justice Sotomayor Blocks NYC Teacher Vaccine Mandate Appeal

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a request by New York City teachers to stop a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for their profession. The Obama appointee blocked the request made public school educators on Friday.

As the overseer of the United States Court of Appeals 2nd circuit, Sotomayor has the authority to be the sole respondent to emergency applications. No lower courts blocked the measure, which allowed it to trickle up to the Supreme Court.

New York City public schools had given staff until 5 p.m. on October 1 to be...