Newspapers challenge anonymity in vaccine mandate lawsuit

A group of newspapers has intervened in a lawsuit over vaccine mandates with a goal of challenging the plaintiffs’ anonymity.

The unnamed health care workers sued in federal court last summer, contending the mandate violated their religious freedoms. The workers are identified in the lawsuit as “Jane Does 1-6” and “John Does 1-3.”

But a judge Thursday granted a motion allowing the newspapers — the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and Sun Journal — to challenge the plaintiffs’ anonymity.

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