Lawsuit Wants Millions in Damages From Boston Over Vaccine Mandate
Boston should pay $6 million each to 16 people who were negatively affected by the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses, according to a new lawsuit.
The people, all residents of Massachusetts, say the mandate was unconstitutional and violated their constitutional rights, including their rights to equal treatment and protection.
One plaintiff, Shana Cottone, a Boston police officer, says she was refused service at two separate pizza restaurants because she did not show proof she’d received a COVID-19 vaccine. Boston police officers were called to enforce the mandate, and Cottone was investigated by her employer.
Cottone, who submitted a religious exemption to the city for not taking a vaccine, suffered “embarrassment, humiliation, and mental anguish” as a result of what happened, the suit states.
Denice Barrasso, another plaintiff, was “unable to visit establishments” covered by the mandate because she did not have proof of vaccination. That has caused her anxiety and mental anguish, according to the suit.
Jason Dunton, a Boston gym owner who is not vaccinated, says the mandate caused him to lose about 30 percent of his business. Additionally, he says he was forced to hire additional staff members whose job was to check whether patrons had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The other plaintiffs include Shannon Lundin, who says her employer, the Massachusetts General Hospital, denied her request for a religious exemption because of the mandate; Kelly Diver, who says the mandate deprived her and her son, Jacob, from going to indoor exhibits at the Franklin Zoo; and Joel Greenburg, a driver for Lyft who says the mandate meant he couldn’t pick up passengers in or deliver passengers to Boston.
The suit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, asks the court to declare plaintiffs’ constitutional rights were violated and an award of $6 million total in damages for each plaintiff, as well as attorney fees.
The amended complaint was filed because the original suit asked for the blocking of the mandate but the COVID-19 vaccine mandate was lifted on Feb. 18, approximately three hours after the suit was filed.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (pictured), a Democrat in her first term who is one of the defendants, imposed the mandate for many establishments, such as restaurants and gyms, on Dec. 20, 2021.
At the time, Wu said the mandate was needed because “the vast majority of COVID-related hospitalizations are of unvaccinated individuals, which is impacting our entire health care system and compromising the health of our communities.”
At the time, data indicated that vaccines had stopped working well in preventing virus infection but were holding up against hospitalization.
Like some other areas, though, the majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Massachusetts as of March 7 were among the vaccinated, according to the state Department of Public Health. The data for Boston alone wasn’t available.
All three vaccines available in the United States have performed worse against the Omicron virus variant, which became dominant in the country in late 2021. All Americans 12 and older are advised to get at least one booster because of the waning effectiveness.
Wu said in lifting the mandate that the drop in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations “shows that we’re ready to take this step in our recovery,” crediting “vaccines and boosters.”
Defendants didn’t return requests for comment. Wu’s office declined to comment.
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Geraint Hughes
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If they succeed this would set a precedent for everyone in the world to sue their governments for all they have been forced to endure
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Herb Rose
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Hi Geraint,
The problem is that if they succeed it will only provide an excuse for the governments to raise taxes and steal more money for themselves not the injured people.
Herb
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Mark Tapley
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More money for the lawyers. Thats what happens when governments get involved in medicine (and everything else). Pfizer and Moderna are projected to make over 120 Billion in profits in 2022. No wonder with the gov. dumping massive amounts of money on Gates (and other Zionist insiders) he has doubled his wealth to over 100 billion in the last ten years. All of this fake vaccine germ theory scam began with the hyped up 1918 “flu” and the Rockefeller’s dozen deadly hog and chicken substrate blood toxin injections along with the massive use of lethal doses of the new drug aspirin.
As bad as all of that is, it is just the tip of the iceberg. The fake virus was to a large extent used as a cover for another massive trillions in monetized debt money (as in 08-09) “stimulus” by the banking cartel to it’s partners at Black Rock – Vanguard (Rothschilds) who control ap. 90% of the largest corporations in the country and the world, including all of big Pharma.
No one ever got immunity from anything by injecting tissue cultured garbage into their system. Read the Real history of “vaccines” in Suzanne Humphries MD “Dissolving Illusions.”
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Gary Brown
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March 4, 2022 New Zealand’s Pandemic of the Fully Vaccinated. Up to 100% of COVID-19 Hospitalisations Are Among the Fully Vaccinated According to Official Data
Six of the 19 days have seen the fully vaccinated account for 100% of Covid-19 hospitalisations, this is despite approximately 79% of the New Zealand population being considered fully vaccinated.
https://lorphicweb.com/new-zealands-pandemic-of-the-fully-vaccinated-up-to-100-of-covid-19-hospitalisations-are-among-the-fully-vaccinated-according-to-official-data/
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Mark Tapley
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It is amazing to me that on one hand the cucked idiots are afraid of a nonexistent virus and willing to even line up for the graphene oxide injection because they believe in the “vaccine” lie as well. However they are not willing to spend 30 minuets researching the truth about the virology scam of tissue sample purification, isolation, and verification. Nor are they willing to investigate the real history of “vaccines” laid out in public records by Suzanne Humphries in “Dissolving Illusions” and others. No one ever got immunity from anything by injecting tissue sample garbage into their blood stream.
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