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Dialuna 14 Juni 2021

Defense rests its case in Judge tosses hospital workers’ vaccine

Colorado school shooting trial requirement challenge

7, 2019, shooting at STEM “Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse
School Highlands Ranch a COVID-19 vaccine; however, if she refuses,
that killed 18-year-old Ken- she will simply need to work somewhere else.
drick Castillo and injured If a worker refuses an assignment, changed
eight others. The other stu- office, earlier start time, or other directive,
dent charged in the shooting, he may be properly fired. Every employment
18-year-old Alec McKinney, includes limits on the worker’s behavior in
pleaded guilty in February exchange for remuneration. That is all part of
2020 and is eligible for parole the bargain,” Hughes concluded.
because he was a juvenile at
the time of the attack. Jared Woodfill, a Houston lawyer represent-
ing Bridges and the other clients, promised
(AP) — A federal judge threw out a law-
Erickson was 18 at the time an appeal.
(AP) — One of the sus- and could face life in prison suit filed by employees of a Houston hos-
pital system over its requirement that all
pects in a fatal attack at without parole if he is con- of its staff be vaccinated against COV- “All of my clients continue to be committed
a suburban Denver high victed. ID-19. to fighting this unjust policy,” Woodfill said in
school in 2019 had be- Chief Deputy District At- a statement. “What is shocking is that many
come such a chronic drug torney George Brauchler The Houston Methodist Hospital system of my clients were on the front line treating
user in the months before argued that Erickson agreed suspended 178 employees without pay last COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist
the shooting that he like- to participate in the attack as week over their refusal to get vaccinated. Of Hospital during the height of the pandemic.
ly “couldn’t think, con- long as it looked like he was them, 117 sued seeking to overturn the re- As a result, many of them contracted COV-
centrate or understand” pressured into it and or could quirement and over their suspension and ID-19. As a thank you for their service and
events around him that emerge as a hero by killing threatened termination. sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a
day, a toxicologist called McKinney. pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.”
by the defense testified In a scathing ruling Saturday, U.S. District Employees had a June 7 deadline to complete
Friday. Brauchler said the students’ their immunization.
concocted “victim-hero” Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston deemed lead
Toxicologist Wanda Guidry strategy unraveled after Cas- plaintiff Jennifer Bridges’ contention that
the vaccines are “experimental and danger-
said Devon Erickson was se- tillo rushed Erickson when ous” to be false and otherwise irrelevant. He In a Tuesday memo, the hospital system’s
verely malnourished because he pulled out a gun inside a CEO, Marc Boom, said that 24,947 employ-
he ingested cocaine, mari- darkened classroom as stu- also found that her likening the vaccination ees had complied with the vaccination re-
requirement to the Nazis’ forced medical
juana and cough syrup nearly dents watched a movie. Er- quirement and that 27 of the 178 others had
daily, and he suffered from ickson’s gun went off, Cas- experimentation on concentration camp cap- received the first of a two-dose vaccine and
tives during the Holocaust to be “reprehen-
long-term sleep deprivation tillo was killed and others wouldn’t be fired if they got their second.
and insomnia, The Denver tackled him, he said. sible.” The rest are subject to termination.
Post reported. Their other possible scenar-
io, in which McKinney killed Hughes also ruled that making vaccinations a He also wrote that 285 other employees re-
Defense attorneys rested himself, was stymied after an condition of employment was not coercion, ceived medical or religious exemptions, and
their case Friday without tes- armed security guard appre- as Bridges contended. 332 were deferred because they were preg-
timony from Erickson. Clos- hended him, Brauchler said. nant or for some other reason.
ing arguments are scheduled
to begin Monday, followed Erickson’s lawyer, Julia Stan-
by jury deliberations. cil, said her client was ma- Travel rebound: 2 million people go
nipulated into joining the
Erickson, 20, pleaded not attack by McKinney, a new through US airports
guilty to first-degree murder friend who preyed on him
and other charges in the May during a family crisis.
(AP) — The airline in-
dustry’s recovery from
the pandemic passed a
milestone as more than 2
million people streamed
through U.S. airport se-
curity checkpoints on
Friday for the first time
since early March 2020.
“Achter elke traan van verdriet, schuilt een glimlach van The Transportation Se-
herinneringen.” curity Administration an-
nounced Saturday that
Op 10 juni 2021 is overleden onze Moeder, Grootmoeder 2.03 million travelers were gan to ease. The recovery 100,000 people boarded
en Zus screened at airport check- is not complete. Friday’s planes in the U.S., and the
points on Friday. It was crowds were only 74% of CEO of Boeing predicted
the volume compared to that at least one major U.S.
Glenda Dennert the first time in 15 months
that the number of security the same day in 2019. How- airline would go bankrupt.
screenings has surpassed 2 ever, the 2.03 million figure
Condoleance zal plaatsvinden op zaterdag 19 juni 2021 million in a single day. was 1.5 million more trav- Most of the airlines are still
van 9 uur tot 11:00 bij Aurora Funeral Home. elers than the same day last losing money. Southwest
eked out a narrow first-
year, according to the TSA.
André, Pamela Airline bookings have been
Ingrid en Alexandra

en familie Maryse, Patrick en Kyra picking up since around The 2-million mark repre- quarter profit thanks to its
share of $64 billion in fed-
February, as more Ameri- sents quite a turnaround for eral pandemic relief to the
cans were vaccinated against the travel industry, which industry, and others are ex-
In plaats van bloemen a.u.b. een donatie aan het Wilhelmina COVID-19 and – at least
Kankerfonds. within the United States – was hammered by the pan- pected to follow suit later
Gelieve geen rouwbeklag aan huis. travel restrictions such as demic. There were days in this year.
mandatory quarantines be- April 2020 when fewer than