Ioio v. City of New York

── Ioio v. City of New York ── Case No.: 24-3252 Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: March 16, 2026 Category: General 24-3252 Ioio v. City of New York UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 16th day of March, two thousand twenty-six. PRESENT: REENA RAGGI, DENNY CHIN, MYRNA PÉREZ, Circuit Judges. ________________________________________ REMO DELLO IOIO, SUZANNE DEEGAN, MARITZA ROMERO, JULIA HARDING, CHRISTINE O'REILLY, SARA COOMBS- MORENO, JESUS COOMBS, ANGELA VELEZ, SANCHA BROWNE, ZENA WOUADJOU, CHARISSE RIDULFO, TRACY ANN FRANCIS MARTIN, KAREEM CAMPBELL, MICHELLE HEMMINGS HARRINGTON, CARLA GRANT, OPHELA INNISS, CASSANDRA CHANDLER, AURA MOODY, EVELYN ZAPATA, SEAN MILAN, SONIA HERNANDEZ, BRUCE REID, JOSEPH RULLO, CURTIS BOYCE, RASHEEN ODOM, JESSICA CSEPKU, JOSEPH SAVIANO, EDWARD WEBER, ROSEANNE MUSTACCHIA, NATALYA HOGAN, FRANKIE TROTMAN, MARIA FIGARO, PAULA SMITH, LYNDSAY WANSER, SARAH WIESEL, CHRISTIAN MURILLO, DIANNE BAKER-PACIUS, DAWN SCHOL, SUZANNE SCHROETER, ALTHEA BRISSETT, TRACEY HOWARD, MARC ROSIELLO, AUDREY DENNIS, MARIE JOSEPH, PATRICIA CATOIRE, SALLY MUSSAFI, COLETTE CAESAR, BERTRAM SCOTT, DIANE PAGEN, STELLA M PRESTON, RACHELLE GARCIA, JULIE LAWLEY, SUSANNE PHILLIP, MARIA ESTRADA, JENNETTE FRAZER, Plaintiffs-Appellants, WOMEN OF COLOR FOR EQUAL JUSTICE, ELIZABETH LOIACONO, AYSE USTARES, AMOURA BRYAN, MARK AYNE, MONIQUE MORENE, GEORGIANN GRATSLEY, MERVILYN WALLEN, YULANDA SMITH, SUZANNE SHROETER, WANSER LYDSAY, MARVILYN WALLEN, MONICA MARTIN, MARK MAYNE, MONIQUE MOORE, Plaintiffs, v. No. 24-3252 CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, ASHWIN VASAN, COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DOES 1-20, ERIC L. ADAMS, Defendants-Appellees. ________________________________________ 2  FOR PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS: Jo Saint-George, Women of Color for Equal Justice, Gaithersburg, MD. FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: Jonathan Schoepp-Wong, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Richard Dearing, Ingrid R. Gustafson, of Counsel, on the brief), for Muriel Goode-Trufant, Corporation Counsel, New York, NY. Appeal from a September 25, 2024, order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Komitee, J.). UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the order of the District Court is AFFIRMED. In connection with vaccine mandates issued by Defendant-Appellee the City of New York (the “City”) requiring all City employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Plaintiffs-Appellants asserted claims for violations of their rights pursuant to: 1) the Occupational Safet