NYC Teachers Target Third Judge in Vaccine Case Over Drug Stocks

New York City teachers want a third federal judge off their pandemic vaccine case over potential stock ownership conflicts, this time for what they say are stakes in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

The teachers asked Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in the Southern District of New York to recuse herself from their challenge to the city’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for education workers after she was assigned to the case on Tuesday.

Two other judges at the Manhattan court were off the case after the teachers requested they recuse themselves for similar holdings.

The moves come as judicial stock holdings ...