Loading ...Federal judge strikes down Montana vaccine choice law in health settings
House Bill 702 had barred employers from mandating vaccines or requiring employees share their vaccine status. U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy ruled that it was unconstitutional and conflicted with federal law.
A federal judge in the U.S. District of Montana ruled late Friday that Montana’s law barring discrimination based on vaccine status is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law as it applies to healthcare settings, bringing a resolution to a lawsuit filed against House Bill 702 by Montana hospitals, private medical providers, unionized nurses and immunocompromised patients.
The order says that the state is generally prohibited from enforcing H.B. 702 in health care settings and barred from using the law to interfere with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare rule requiring health care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.
CAN ANYONE INTERPRET THIS RULING IN THE COMMENTS SECTION? THX
Interpretation: implement the state law, ignore the feds, and hang the fucking judge.
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