Holding COVID Tyranny Accountable

New Orleans, LA. - January 9, 2025

On January 2, 2025, Dr. Simone Gold and the AFLDS legal team filed an amici curiae brief with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in support of the Plaintiffs-Appellants (Plaintiffs) in Bridges v. The Methodist Hospital. By submitting an appeal to the Fifth Circuit, the Plaintiffs are asking the appellate court to reverse the decision of the district court - seeking declaratory relief and damages resulting from the Defendants-Appellees’ (Defendants) COVID-19 “vaccine” mandate. This pivotal case for medical freedom has the potential to set a precedent for lawsuits across the country and for the countless Americans seeking justice from COVID tyranny. 

In April 2021, the Methodist Hospital System implemented a mandatory COVID-19 immunization policy for all of its employees and vendors. The Plaintiffs refused to comply and had their jobs or vendor privileges terminated. District Court Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. upheld the Defendants’ mandate, concluding that the Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to refuse vaccination and the COVID-19 “vaccine” mandates are rationally related to a legitimate state interest. In other words, the Defendants’ mandate was in the best interest of safety and stopping the spread of the virus. 

America’s Frontline Doctors maintains the position that these experimental mRNA injections are not vaccines. Failing to prevent infection or transmission, the COVID shots are personal medical treatments ONLY. Further, vast scientific research and evidence have proven these “vaccines” to be neither safe nor effective. In dismissing the Plaintiffs’ claims, the lower court relied on the now-disproven “safe and effective” narrative.

Further, the Defendants engaged in unconstitutional, illegal and possible criminal activity by mandating dangerous experimental medical treatments in violation of numerous well-established laws and regulations. If left unchecked by the courts, these unlawful violations are likely to recur in the future. The Fifth Circuit must firmly reject the Defendants’ mandate by reversing the lower court’s deeply flawed ruling. 

AFLDS attorney David Dalia states, “As most people now know, the COVID shots are neither ‘safe’ nor ‘effective.’ This was not disclosed to those who were coerced into taking these injections under the threat of job termination. As of November 29th, 2024, the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System logged 38,190 attributable deaths and countless serious adverse reactions since these experimental injections were introduced around 2021. Two American states and several European countries no longer recommend these injections. No public or private institution should ever illegally ‘mandate’ such risky and dangerous shots again. After all, how can anyone attempt to mandate anything that might kill you? We are hopeful that the Fifth Circuit will invalidate this hospital mandate.”

AFLDS Founder and President Dr. Simone Gold added, “Voluntary, coercion-free and fully informed consent to medical treatments is not only essential but legally required. As the lessons of Nuremberg and the Tuskegee experiment teach, forced medical experimentation on human beings is reprehensible and must not be upheld by any court. Tyranny can only persist if we allow it. These unlawful mandates must be swiftly and unanimously rejected.” 

Stay tuned - We will keep you updated on the status of this case and our efforts to hold COVID tyranny accountable. 

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