Supreme Court won’t block vaccine mandate for NYC teachers

The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request from a group of New York City public school teachers seeking to block a vaccine mandate for employees who were not given a religious exemption.

Their appeal was directed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles cases from that region. She rejected an earlier challenge, filed in October, to the city’s vaccine mandate. She rejected the teachers’ latest appeal with no explanation, which is the court’s usual procedure.

Sotomayor did not ask the city for a response, either — another sign that the request for an injunction would likely fail.