Positive Developments in Lawsuit Backing RI Oral Surgeon

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has dismissed a Compliance Order that shut down Dr. Stephen Skoly’s practice last October for not complying with Rhode Island’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. NCLA’s lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Skoly pressured the state to allow him to get back to serving his patients.

Dr. Skoly, one of Rhode Island’s few oral and maxillofacial surgeons—whose services are critical to the community—has natural immunity to Covid-19 and also has unique medical circumstances that put his health at risk if he were to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

In refusing to recognize Dr. Skoly’s naturally acquired immunity to Covid-19 and denying his request for a medical exemption from the vaccine mandate, RIDOH had harmed hundreds of Rhode Island patients, including its most vulnerable (residents of the state’s psychiatric hospital and prison), who, in Dr. Skoly’s absence, have suffered due to the absence of necessary surgeries. John discusses the latest positive developments in the case.

Third Circuit’s Mootness Problem in Johnson v. Murphy

NCLA’s lawsuit on behalf of New Jersey landlords challenging Governor Murphy’s Executive Order No. 128 was dismissed as moot by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which reasoned that the order had expired and was unlikely to be repeated. Mark talks about the mootness problem and Third Circuit’s decision in Johnson v. Murphy.

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