| NY Fed
Presses To Fire Unvaccinated Staff By
Dissolving Restraining Order So Sunday
Filings
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 4 –
The Federal Reserve Bank of
New York wants to fire
longtime employees Lori
Gardner-Alfred of The Bronx
and Jeanette Diaz of Bayonne,
New Jersey for not being
vaccinated against COVID-19.
The two
women won a temporary
restraining order in New York
State court. But the FRBNY
removed the case to Federal
court and Friday argued to
dissolve the TRO and fire the
women, saying that their harm
is not
irreparable.
On March 4, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Lewis J. Liman held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
FRBNY
in-house lawyer Alex Leonard
argued the TRO should be
immediately lift. The women,
representing themselves, asked
for time to respond to the
papers the Fed, their employer
for decades, had just given
them.
Judge
Liman to his credit did give
them time, until Sunday to
file their response to his
chambers by email. Then, it
should be docketed.
Jeanette
Diaz asked
about the
FRBNY's
definition and
denial of
religious
exemptions.
Judge Liman
said perhaps
Mr. Leonard
could answer.
But he said
no, that would
be getting in
to the merits
and the Fed's
focus was
getting the
TRO dissolved
and presumably
firing the
employees.
Inner City
Press, which recently reported
on the FRBNY approving a bank
merger application on a
delegated basis - the FRBNY as
a private not governmental
entity has no authority to
deny any merger application -
by Berkshire Bank with a rare
Needs to Improve rating in New
York under the Community
Reinvestment Act, here.
To the immediate
petition for review to the Fed
Governors in DC, there has
been no response. We will have
more and on this.
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