Federal Judge Says No to Anonymity for Health Care Workers Suing Over COVID Vaccine
June 9, 2022 | Maine
A federal judge ruled late last month that a group of Maine health care workers who have a lawsuit challenging the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate pending before the U.S. Supreme Court cannot remain anonymous.
In a May 31 ruling, Maine Chief U.S. District Judge Jon Levy gave the nine workers in Maine, mostly nurses, until June 7 to file an amended complaint identifying themselves by name for the suit to continue.
The ruling was in response to a motion filed by Maine media asking for the court to order the disclosure of the names of the health care workers challenging Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers providers in the state.
“The Plaintiffs have not shown that their fear of severe harm if their identities are revealed is objectively reasonable,” Levy wrote in his ruling.
He said he did not doubt the sincerity of the workers’ concerns but that “their privacy interests have not been shown to outweigh the public interest” in knowing their identities…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)
