NYC Vax Mandate Rollback Threatens Workers’ Bid to Block It (1)

Federal appeals court judges questioned whether New York City’s upcoming revocation of its Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city employees shuts the door on a bid to block the policy brought by workers and a religious advocacy group.

Judges Eunice Lee and Myrna Perez pressed the attorney for the workers and New Yorkers for Religious Liberty Inc. on the city’s policy change during oral argument Wednesday at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The two Biden-appointed judges focused on the possibility that the vaccine policy rollback—even if it doesn’t obviate the workers’ injunction request—prevents them from showing they ...