[Fox Business] Court ruled that COVID-19 is not an occupational hazard but a 'universal risk'
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued mixed rulings in a pair of cases challenging Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandates, allowing the requirement for certain health care workers to go into effect while blocking enforcement of a mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees.
The latter, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that took effect on Monday, said that businesses with at least 100 employees needed to require workers to get vaccinated, or get tested weekly and wear a mask.
The Court ruled that OSHA lacked the authority to impose such a mandate because the law that created OSHA "empowers the Secretary to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures."
"Although COVID-19 is a risk that occurs in many workplaces, it is not an occupational hazard in most," the Court ruled. "COVID—19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather. That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases."
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it's about time someone up there got something right, besides the mandate for healthcare workers. Of course there were 3 idiots who on the court.
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The mandate for health workers at facilities that take federal money can be worked around many ways. SCROTUS has signaled they do not wat to re-visit this. Because they know an argument that working for a federal contractor does not make you a federal employee will open up a dozen cans of worms.
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Semi weaslely decision by SCOTUS. Good on OSHA part; not good for health care workers. Unintended ramifications for a profession where there is already an exodus of health-care workers.
Mandates of any kind are not well-accepted by Americans.
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Good question B. Non-vaxers being discharged by the military are getting hosed. This Biden policy decision impacts national security. The SCOTUS decision is weak-kneed. Maybe another law case will test the Constitutionality of the discharge decision.
I saw today, that the military is paying up to $50K for an enlistment bonus. The "woke" military must be having problems with recruiting. The idiots in charge seem to be hell-bent on destroying institutions and culture.
[An Nahar] A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company's request for a dismissal.In a revised complaint filed last August, the FTC argues that the company pursued a "buy or bury" strategy against rivals to suppress competition.
This is the FTC's second antitrust run at the company. A federal judge in June dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the agency and a broad coalition of state attorneys general that were among multiplying efforts by federal and state regulators to rein in tech titans' market power.
The FTC is seeking remedies that could include a forced spinoff of Facebook's popular Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services, or a restructuring of the company.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who in June ruled that the FTC's original lawsuit was "legally insufficient" and didn't provide enough evidence to prove that Facebook was a monopoly, said in Tuesday's ruling that the the first complaint "stumbled out of the starting blocks."
But he added that, though the "core theory" of the lawsuit — that Facebook is a monopoly engaging in anticompetitive behavior — remains unchanged, the facts alleged this time around are "far more robust and detailed than before."
Meta said in an emailed statement it is "confident the evidence will reveal the fundamental weakness of the claims."
"Our investments in Instagram and WhatsApp transformed them into what they are today," the company said. "They have been good for competition, and good for the people and businesses that choose to use our products."
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[An Nahar] A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company's request for a dismissal.In a revised complaint filed last August, the FTC argues that the company pursued a "buy or bury" strategy against rivals to suppress competition.
