A federal judge granted a stay of discovery in a lawsuit challenging the New York State court system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees pending resolution of a dismissal motion, finding that the plaintiffs’ claims are not “meaningfully different” from previous, unsuccessful challenges.

U.S. Magistrate Judge James Wicks of the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday found that the plaintiffs in the suit, a group of current and former court system employees and the nonprofit Court Employees Against Mandates, failed to submit anything that “would appear to lead to a different result” in this case compared to several previous suits challenging the New York Unified Court System’s mandate.