The U.S. Supreme Court and other courts in California and elsewhere have issued rulings in recent weeks on government-imposed vaccine mandates. Some rulings have upheld vaccine mandates, others have blocked them. This is how the law has led courts in three cases to different outcomes on substantively similar mandates.
L.A. federal judge upholds L.A. city employee vaccination mandate
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument on challenges to two federal COVID-19 mandates on Jan. 7, Los Angeles federal judge R. Gary Klausner rejected constitutional and statutory challenges to a Los Angeles ordinance setting a deadline for all city employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to certain exemptions. Thirteen LAPD employees sued to block the mandate.
Judge Klausner noted that courts generally reject constitutional challenges to actions the government takes as an employer if those actions are reasonably related to a legitimate government interest, in this case its interest in stopping the spread of COVID-19. Judge Klausner found the mandate met that test. He rejected the employees’ claim that the ordinance violated their right to privacy under the California state constitution by forcing them to disclose private medical information and receive unwanted medical treatment.
Judge Klausner similarly concluded the ordinance did not violate the U.S. Constitution by arbitrarily depriving the employees of their liberty. He observed that the Supreme Court “has long...
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