
People placed on leave from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for refusing a COVID-19 vaccinations will get no help from the courts in ongoing arbitration proceedings with the lab, a federal judge in New Mexico said recently. The decision dropped Halloween night in the U.S. District Court for New Mexico, where Judge Kea Riggs told the eight plaintiffs, who sued the lab over its vaccine mandate in 2021, that she would not reopen their lawsuit or force lab management contractor…