A New York City police detective and his outspoken anti-vaccination lawyer said they will seek, as early as Tuesday, a federal court order compelling Mayor Bill de Blasio to temporarily halt his administration’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for all city employees.
The detective and his attorney said they will base their attempt to win the halt-order on a bench ruling they achieved in the detective’s state Supreme Court lawsuit. In that ongoing action against city officials, brought pursuant to New York’s CPLR Article 78 statute, Det. Anthony Marciano contends that the city’s vaccine mandate violates his constitutional and civil rights. And Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Frank Nervo, at the end of lengthy court arguments on the temporary restraining order last week, granted Marciano the order, in a surprising ruling, while stating he was doing so “in the interests of equity and this Court’s overarching power to exercise the Court’s inherent interest of justice jurisdiction,” according to a hearing transcript.
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