Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino
The legal tussle over whether Ochsner Health can require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face termination should be resolved next month by the Louisiana Supreme Court. Loyola University law professor, Dane Ciolino, says in this case that the justices will consider “there have been conflicting decisions from lower courts in north Louisiana and southwestern Louisiana and the court needs to resolve them fairly quickly.”
A hearing on the matter is set for December 7th.
Ciolino expressed surprise when the state’s 2nd Court of Appeals sided with Shreveport Ochsner employees opposed to the vaccine mandate, blocking it last month. “That was very unusual and befuddling to me anyway because the constitution doesn’t typically regulate what private employers can and can’t do,” says Ciolino
Ciolino predicts that Ochsner Health will emerge victorious in the state Supreme Court case given that Louisiana is an “at will” state when it comes to employment. He says, “I would predict that at the end of the day Ochsner is going to wind up winning this one and be allowed to impose that private employer mandate.”
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