'Without Merit': Federal Court Dismisses Oklahoma Challenge To Vaccine Mandate For National Guard
Posted on AllSides December 29th, 2021
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Afederal judge in Oklahoma threw out a lawsuit filed by the state against the Department of Defense over its service-wide vaccine mandate, including the state's National Guard.
On Wednesday, District Judge Stephen Friot said Oklahoma's case was "without merit," and that the authority of the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to set readiness standards through its COVID-19 vaccine mandate was well within the Pentagon's authority.
Contrasting the COVID inoculation to others required by the services, Friot said the vaccine mandate was hardly an overreach as alleged by Oklahoma, which saw members of...
