I'm Samantha Cheris, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the daily signal top news for Tuesday,

October 25th.

Here are today's headlines.

A New York judge ordered Monday that the Department of Sanitation employees, terminated

for refusing to get vaccinated must be reinstated to their full employment status, writing that

the vaccination mandate for city employees was not just about safety and public health,

it was about compliance.

Our colleague Mary Margaret Olehann reported for the daily signal.

Judge Ralph J. Porzio wrote in his ruling that if the vaccine mandate was about safety

and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the

order was issued.

Porzio said, if it was about safety and public health, the health commissioner would have

issued city-wide mandates for vaccination for all residents.

In a city with a nearly 80% vaccination rate, we shouldn't be penalizing the people who

showed up to work, a great risk to themselves and their families while we were locked down.

Porzio's ruling states that the October 20th, 2021, and December 13th, 2021, rulings from

the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene, ordering that all employees get vaccinated,

are arbitrary and capricious, ordering that the petitioners be reinstated to their full

employment status and entitled to pay back in salary from date of termination.

In other court news, a federal judge quashed a Justice Department subpoena going after

communications of a private conservative group in Alabama, that's according to reporting

by our colleague here at the daily signal Fred Lucas.

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