Six Chicago Public Schools teachers are once again challenging the district’s rules requiring employees receive the COVID-19 vaccination or undergo weekly testing.
The six women are “suffering continuing harm in that each is being subjected to an unlawful vaccination or testing policy without being provided their statutorily protected rights of due process of law,” according to paperwork downstate attorney Tom DeVore filed Thursday in Sangamon County court.
DeVore is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Chicago Board of Education. A hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, he said. CPS representatives did not immediately return a Tribune request for comment.
Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow already issued a temporary restraining order on Feb. 4 after hundreds of parents across the state challenged Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s school COVID-19 policies such as universal masking; quarantining for unvaccinated close contacts of an infected person; and testing for unvaccinated staff members.
Pritzker appealed the temporary restraining order, but the appellate court dismissed the appeal. The court found that because rules from the Illinois Department of Public Health requiring masking and other COVID-19 protocols had been allowed to expire, the appeal was moot.
The Illinois Supreme Court declined to hear the case, vacating the temporary restraining order. DeVore said the temporary restraining order was vacated because it “wasn’t necessary anymore. They...
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