Employees Amend Complaint Alleging Vaccine Mandate Violated Constitutional Rights

( August 12, 2025, 9:32 AM EDT) -- NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After a Connecticut federal judge granted a university health system’s motion to dismiss, finding that former employees alleging violations of their constitutional rights to “bodily autonomy, medical privacy and equal protection” caused by the health system’s mandatory COVID-19 policy and seeking damages under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code had failed to demonstrate that the health system was a state actor, the employees filed a second amended complaint....