Several Steamship Authority employees have been terminated after not following the ferry service’s requirement to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Patrick Daubert, an attorney for the employees, confirmed. The employees are part of a federal lawsuit against the Steamship Authority. In March, a federal judge rejected the request for an injunction against the SSA. “I can […]
A 37-year-old man with a PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke told law enforcement agents in Massachusetts that he had meant to buy one packet of castor beans in June 2015,.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns has denied an injunction that would halt the Steamship Authority vaccination mandate for employees who claim they sought and were denied religious exemptions. Citing another judge’s conclusion, Stearn wrote “the Commonwealth (and, by extension the Authority) ‘is under no constitutional obligation to offer a religious exemption to its vaccine […]