Where the plaintiffs, 11 current and former employees of the defendant Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, requested preliminary injunctive relief from the defendant’s vaccination policy adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not an abuse of discretion for a U.S. District Court judge to deny that request, as the defendant had legitimate interests in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and in protecting the health and safety of its employees, customers and vendors and (2) requiring vaccination for all employees, while also providing a limited exemption to those for whom the vaccine is medically contraindicated, was rationally related to achieving the defendant’s interests.
“The appellants, eleven current and former employees of the Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority (the ‘Authority’), challenge the denial of their request for preliminary injunctive relief from the Authority’s vaccination policy adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is our second encounter with this litigation. After our previous decision remanding the matter to the district court, that court again declined to issue an injunction. We affirm. …
“… The COVID-19 Vaccination Verification Policy (the ‘Policy’) required all employees to have received or to obtain immediately ‘at least one COVID-19 vaccination’ and to be ‘fully vaccinated in accordance with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (‘CDC’)] definition’ within six weeks. …
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