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Plaintiffs' Supplemental Authority — CDC Guidance and EO 302 — Children's Health Defense v. Rutgers

Filed August 16, 2022 in Childrens Health Defense v. Rutgers; one of 33 filings from this case.

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Filed2022-08-16

No. 3:21-cv-15333-ZNQ-TJB · Doc. 51 · 2022-08-16 · Docket on CourtListener

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GOMEZ LLC                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Julio C. Gomez, Esq.
 
     ATTORNEY AT LAW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                908.789.1080 Tel 
908.789.1081 Fax 
jgomez@gomezllc.com 
1451 COOPER ROAD 
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ 07076 
August 16, 2022 
 
VIA CM-ECF 
Hon. Zahid N. Quraishi, U.S.D.J. 
United States District Court, District of New Jersey 
Clarkson S. Fisher Building & U.S. Courthouse 
402 East State Street 
Trenton, NJ 08608 
 
Re: 
Children’s Health Defense, Inc. et al. v. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, et al. 
 
Civ. Case No. 21-15333 (United States District Court, District of New Jersey 
 
 
 
Dear Judge Quraishi: 
 
On behalf of Plaintiffs, as supplemental authority in support of Plaintiff’s opposition to Rutgers’ 
Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 39), I respectfully submit the 
following: (1) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s August 11, 2022 
announcement of revised COVID-19 guidance; and (2) Governor Murphy’s August 15, 2022, 
Executive Order No. 302. 
 
CDC’s recommendations now include, inter alia, that unvaccinated people have the same guidance 
as vaccinated people: regardless of vaccination status those exposed to the virus are no longer 
required to quarantine (e.g. unvaccinated students can stay in class after being exposed to the 
virus), and it is no longer recommended to screen persons without symptoms.
1  Governor 
Murphy’s Executive Order (which cites the CDC’s updated guidance) ends the COVID test 
mandate for unvaccinated teachers, childcare workers and state workers. 
 
CDC’s updated guidance and Executive Order 302 suggest strongly that Rutgers has no basis to 
maintain many of the policies challenged in this case for the upcoming Fall Semester; these 
developments also put into question whether Rutgers had sufficient scientific or legal grounds to 
adopt its policies in the first place.  Although Plaintiffs contend that a higher legal standard applies 
to Defendants’ policies and practices, the CDC’s revised regulations and the Governor’s Executive 
Order demonstrate that Rutgers does not have a rational basis to continue to discriminate against 
unvaccinated students. 
 
Plaintiffs respectfully request an opportunity to brief the significance of these developments vis-à-
vis the parties’ respective legal positions in the pending motion, and the opportunity to address 
these or any other matters in oral argument before the Court rules on that motion. 
 
1 See also https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-
health/isolation.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fyour-
health%2Fquarantine-isolation.html and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-
childcare/k-12-childcare-guidance.html.  
 
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Hon. Zahid N. Quraishi, U.S.D.J. 
August 16, 2022 
Page 2 of 2 
 
 
 
Thank you. 
 
Respectfully submitted, 
/s/ Julio C. Gomez 
 
 
cc: 
Counsel of Record (via CM/ECF w/ encl.) 
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 302 
 
 
WHEREAS, on March 9, 2020, I issued Executive Order No. 103, 
declaring the existence of a Public Health Emergency, pursuant to 
the Emergency Health Powers Act (“EHPA”), N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq., 
and a State of Emergency, pursuant to the New Jersey Civilian 
Defense and Disaster Control Act (“Disaster Control Act”), 
N.J.S.A. App A:9-33 et seq., in the State of New Jersey for 
Coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”), the facts and circumstances 
of which are adopted by reference herein; and 
WHEREAS, through Executive Order Nos. 119, 138, 151, 162, 
171, 180, 186, 191, 200, 210, 215, 222, 231, 235, and 240, which 
were issued each month between April 7, 2020 and May 14, 2021, the 
facts and circumstances of which are adopted by reference herein, 
I declared that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency in effect at 
the time continued to exist; and 
WHEREAS, New Jersey made significant progress in responding 
to COVID-19 and mitigating its devastating effects, in particular 
in light of the advent of several effective vaccines that, among 
other things, had significantly reduced the likelihood of both 
contracting and transmitting the variants of COVID-19 that were 
present in the United States at the time; and   
WHEREAS, on June 4, 2021, in light of these developments, I 
signed Assembly Bill No. 5820 into law as P.L.2021, c.103, and 
issued Executive Order No. 244, which terminated the Public Health 
Emergency declared in Executive Order No. 103 (2020); and 
WHEREAS, P.L.2021, c.103 sought to enable the State to bring 
an end to its initial Public Health Emergency while still allowing 
for an orderly continuation of the Administration’s ability to 
order certain public health measures relating to COVID-19, 
including but not limited to vaccine distribution, administration, 
and management, COVID-19 testing, health resource and personnel 
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allocation, data collection, and implementation of recommendations 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) to 
prevent or limit the transmission of COVID-19, including in 
specific settings; and 
WHEREAS, P.L.2021, c.103 explicitly maintained the State of 
Emergency declared in Executive Order No. 103 (2020), and stated 
it would in no way diminish, limit, or impair the powers of the 
Governor to respond to any of the threats presented by COVID-19 
pursuant to the Disaster Control Act; and 
WHEREAS, in addition to leaving the prior State of Emergency 
in effect, nothing in P.L.2021, c.103 prevented the Governor from 
declaring any new public health emergency under the EHPA, N.J.S.A. 
26:13-1 et seq., should the evolving circumstances on the ground 
require such a declaration; and  
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 252, issued August 6, 2021, 
required all covered health care and high-risk congregate settings 
(“covered settings”) to maintain a policy that required all covered 
workers to either provide adequate proof to the covered settings 
that they have been fully vaccinated or submit to COVID-19 testing 
at minimum one to two times weekly beginning September 7, 2021; 
and  
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 253, issued August 23, 2021, 
requires all public, private, and parochial preschool programs and 
elementary 
and 
secondary 
schools, 
including 
charter 
and 
renaissance schools (collectively “school districts”) to maintain 
a policy that requires all covered workers to either provide 
adequate proof to the school district that they have been fully 
vaccinated or submit to COVID-19 testing at minimum one to two 
times weekly beginning October 18, 2021; and 
 
 
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WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 264, issued September 20, 2021, 
requires all child care centers and other child care facilities 
(collectively “child care settings”) to maintain a policy that 
requires all covered workers to either provide adequate proof to 
the child care settings that they have been fully vaccinated or 
submit to COVID-19 testing at minimum one to two times weekly 
beginning November 1, 2021; and  
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 271, issued October 20, 2021, 
requires that each executive department and agency, including an 
independent authority, ensure that certain new contracts, new 
solicitations for contracts, extensions or renewals of existing 
contracts, and exercising options on existing contracts, include 
a clause that the contractor or any subcontractors, at any tier, 
that is party to the contract (“covered contractor(s)”), must 
maintain a policy that requires all covered workers to either 
provide adequate proof to the covered contractor that they have 
been fully vaccinated or submit to COVID-19 testing at minimum one 
to two times weekly; and 
WHEREAS, as the CDC has recognized, viruses can change through 
mutation and mutations can result in variants of the virus, and 
some variants can spread more easily and quickly than other 
variants of the same virus, which may lead to more cases of 
COVID-19, 
increased 
strain 
on 
healthcare 
resources, 
more 
hospitalizations, and more deaths; and 
WHEREAS, since Executive Order No. 244 (2021) took effect, 
the CDC has reported that new variants of concern of COVID-19 have 
been identified in the United States, particularly the B.1.617.2 
(Delta) variant and most recently the B1.1.529, BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2, 
BA.3, BA.4, and BA.5 lineages of the Omicron variant (“Omicron”); 
and  
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WHEREAS, although New Jersey was able to end the initial 
Public Health Emergency on account of the effectiveness of vaccines 
in reducing transmissibility of COVID-19, the Omicron spread more 
easily than other variants and required additional action to 
protect the public; and 
WHEREAS, on January 11, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 
280, declaring the existence of a new Public Health Emergency, 
pursuant to the EHPA, N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq., and continuing the 
State of Emergency declared in Executive Order No. 103 (2020) 
pursuant to the Disaster Control Act, N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq., 
in the State of New Jersey due to the surge of cases and 
hospitalizations tied to the new variants of COVID-19; and 
WHEREAS, on January 11, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 
281, extending various orders to ensure the State continues to 
have the necessary resources in place to respond to the new 
variants of COVID-19; and  
WHEREAS, on January 19, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 
283, requiring certain health care and high-risk congregate 
settings to maintain a policy that requires all covered workers to 
provide adequate proof to the covered settings that they are up to 
date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including a booster dose 
when eligible; and 
WHEREAS, on February 10, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 
288, which declared that the Public Health Emergency declared in 
Executive Order No. 280 (2022) continued to exist; and 
WHEREAS, on March 2, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 290, 
clarifying and extending the timeframes within which covered 
settings must require their covered workers to comply with the 
vaccination and booster requirements set forth in Executive Order 
No. 283 (2022); and  
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WHEREAS, as a result of significant emergency measures taken, 
the State made considerable progress in combating COVID-19 
variants and decreasing key statistics, such as the number of 
hospitalized patients in the State, the number of daily positive 
COVID-19 cases, spot positivity, and the rate of transmission; and 
WHEREAS, in light of these developments, on March 4, 2022, I 
issued Executive Order No. 292 terminating the Public Health 
Emergency declared in Executive Order No. 280 (2022) effective 
March 7, 2022, while continuing the State of Emergency declared in 
Executive Order No. 103; and 
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 292 (2022) stated that Executive 
Order Nos. 111, 112, and 207 (2020), Nos. 252, 253, 264, and 271 
(2021) and Nos. 283 and 290 (2022) remain in full force and effect 
pursuant to the Disaster Control Act, N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq., 
except that paragraphs 11 and 13 of Executive Order No. 264 (2021) 
were rescinded; and  
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 292 (2022) lifted certain 
mitigation protocols, including the requirement that face masks be 
worn in school districts and child care settings, while continuing 
to require workers in school districts and child care settings to 
receive a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo regular testing in order to 
help prevent outbreaks and reduce transmission to children; and 
WHEREAS, on April 13, 2022, I issued Executive Order No. 294, 
clarifying the vaccination and booster requirements applicable to 
workers in certain covered settings as set forth in Executive Order 
No. 283 (2022) and Executive Order No. 290 (2022); and  
WHEREAS, the Department of Health’s (“DOH”) Executive 
Directive No. 21-011 (Revised), dated April 6, 2022, provides 
protocols for COVID-19 testing and vaccination reporting for 
covered settings pursuant to Executive Order Nos. 252, 253, and 
264 (2021) and Nos. 283 and 290 (2022), including the requirement 
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that school districts report information to DOH using the 
Surveillance for Influenza and COVID-19 (“SIC”) Module in the 
Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance System; and  
WHEREAS, throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has continually 
evaluated data on the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 
vaccine, including as administered to children of various age 
groups; and 
WHEREAS, on October 29, 2021 and May 17, 2022, the FDA issued 
amendments to its Emergency Use Authorizations (“EUAs”) of the 
COVID-19 vaccines which, collectively, expanded eligibility of 
certain COVID-19 vaccines and booster doses to children and 
adolescents between 5 and 17 years of age; and 
WHEREAS, on June 17, 2022, the FDA issued further amendments 
to its EUAs of the COVID-19 vaccines which expanded eligibility of 
the primary COVID-19 vaccination series of certain COVID-19 
vaccines to children between 6 months to 5 years of age; and 
WHEREAS, New Jersey has administered over 18.4 million doses 
of the COVID-19 vaccine in the State to date, with over 8 million 
or 93% of New Jerseyans having received at least one dose of the 
vaccine; and 
WHEREAS, of the total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine 
administered in New Jersey, over 1.9 million doses have been 
administered to children between 6 months to 17 years of age; and 
WHEREAS, according to the CDC, various treatments and FDA-
authorized 
therapeutics 
for 
COVID-19, 
such 
as 
antiviral 
medications and monoclonal antibodies, that can reduce the 
likelihood of severe illness and death have become widely 
available; and   
 
 
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WHEREAS, over the last five months, the State has experienced 
stable rates on key benchmark statistics, such as the number of 
hospitalized patients, patients in intensive care, and ventilators 
in use, and the spot positivity of COVID-19 tests; and 
WHEREAS, on August 11, 2022, the CDC issued updated “Guidance 
for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, 
Communities, and Health Care Systems” in which the CDC recognizes 
that high levels of vaccine and infection-induced immunity and the 
availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have 
substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 
illness, and associated hospitalization and death; and 
WHEREAS, the CDC’s updated guidance notes that as a result of 
improved circumstances and the availability of multicomponent 
prevention measures, public health efforts to minimize the impacts 
of COVID-19 can now be tailored to individual and societal health 
factors, with a focus on reducing medically significant illness 
and minimizing the strain on the health care system, while removing 
barriers to social, educational, and economic activity; and 
WHEREAS, 
the 
CDC’s 
updated 
guidance 
recognizes 
that 
continuing to increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage, including 
booster doses, expanding access to therapeutics, and undertaking 
testing and other prevention measures remain essential to prevent 
severe outcomes and death from COVID-19, particularly for persons 
who are at an increased personal risk for severe adverse reactions 
and persons in certain health care and high-risk congregate 
settings; and 
WHERAS, the CDC’s updated guidance further recognizes that in 
general community settings, including school districts and child 
care settings, local public health officials and jurisdictions are 
equipped with a host of COVID-19 prevention strategies and 
localized data to decide which mitigation protocols to use and 
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when, based on COVID-19 Community Levels and setting-specific 
factors; and 
WHEREAS, on August 11, 2022, the CDC also issued updated 
“Operational Guidance for K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education 
Programs to Support Safe In-Person Learning” in which the CDC 
recommends that school districts and child care settings utilize 
COVID-19 mitigation protocols on a flexible basis; and 
WHEREAS, as reported in the updated guidance for school 
districts and child care settings, the CDC is no longer 
recommending routine screening testing in school districts and 
child care settings, except as may be deemed necessary for certain 
high-risk, close contact activities, or when the CDC Community 
Levels in the local region of the school district or child care 
setting reach high levels; and 
WHEREAS, in light of the CDC’s updated guidance, and given 
the progress the State has made, the State can begin to responsibly 
lift certain mitigation protocols in place, including the 
requirement that school districts and child care settings maintain 
a policy requiring their unvaccinated covered workers to submit to 
weekly or twice weekly COVID-19 testing, as well as the requirement 
that covered contractors maintain a policy requiring their 
unvaccinated covered workers submit to weekly or twice weekly 
COVID-19 testing, as the State continues the next phase of the 
COVID-19 response; and   
WHEREAS, continued surveillance of school-associated COVID-
19 cases, clusters, and outbreaks is necessary for DOH to 
understand and track COVID-19 in the school setting, including 
monitoring the impact of vaccination, in order to inform public 
health decisions and actions, therefore it is critical that school 
districts continue to be required to report into the SIC module; 
and  
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WHEREAS, despite the extensive progress made in combatting 
COVID-19, and the ability to lift certain mitigation protocols, 
there remains an ongoing threat necessitating that certain actions 
taken by the State in response to COVID-19 and new variants, can 
remain in place as the State continues the next phase of our COVID-
19 response; and  
WHEREAS, the CDC continues to emphasize the importance of 
heightened mitigation protocols in certain covered settings, 
especially high-risk congregate care settings, because of the 
significant risk of spread and vulnerability of the populations 
served; and  
WHEREAS, continuing to require workers in those covered 
settings to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, 
including the first booster dose for which they are eligible, can 
help prevent outbreaks and reduce transmission to vulnerable 
individuals who may be at higher risk of severe disease; and 
WHEREAS, the Constitution and statutes of the State of 
New Jersey, N.J.S.A. App. A: 9-33 et seq., N.J.S.A. 38A:3-6.1, and 
N.J.S.A. 38A:24 and all amendments and supplements thereto, confer 
upon the Governor of the State of New Jersey certain emergency 
powers, which I have invoked; 
NOW, THEREFORE, I, PHILIP D. MURPHY, Governor of the State of 
New Jersey, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and by the Statutes of this State, do hereby ORDER 
and DIRECT:  
1. 
Executive Order Nos. 253 and 264 (2021) are hereby 
rescinded. 
2. 
Nothing in this Order shall prevent a school district or 
child care setting from maintaining a vaccination or testing policy 
implemented pursuant to Executive Order Nos. 253 and 264 (2021). 
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3. 
School districts shall continue to report information to 
DOH using the COVID-19 SIC Module, as set forth in Executive 
Directive 21-011, until Executive Directive 21-011 is revoked or 
modified by DOH or until the State of Emergency is no longer in 
effect, whichever is sooner. 
4. 
Executive Order No. 271 (2021) is hereby rescinded. 
5. 
The Commissioner of DOH is hereby authorized to issue a 
directive supplementing the requirements outlined in this Order, 
which may include, but not be limited to, any requirements for 
reporting vaccination and testing data to DOH. 
6. 
For 
purposes 
of 
this 
Order, 
“Executive 
Branch 
departments and agencies” shall mean any of the principal 
departments in the Executive Branch of State government and any 
agency, 
authority, 
board, 
bureau, 
commission, 
division, 
institution, office, or other instrumentality within or created by 
any such department, and any independent State authority, 
commission, instrumentality, or agency over which the Governor 
exercises executive authority, as determined by the Attorney 
General. 
7. 
It shall be the duty of every person or entity in this 
State or doing business in this State and of the members of the 
governing body and every official, employee, or agent of every 
political subdivision in this State and of each member of all other 
governmental bodies, agencies, and authorities in this State of 
any nature whatsoever, to cooperate fully in all matters concerning 
this Order, and to cooperate fully with any Administrative Orders 
issued pursuant to this Order.  
8. 
No municipality, county, or any other agency or 
political subdivision of this State shall enact or enforce any 
order, rule, regulation, ordinance, or resolution which will or 
might in any way conflict with any of the provisions of this Order, 
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or which will or might in any way interfere with or impede its 
achievement.  
9. 
Penalties for violations of this Order may be imposed 
under, among other statutes, N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50.  
10. 
This Order shall take effect immediately, except that 
paragraph 4 of this Order shall take effect September 1, 2022. 
11. 
This Order shall remain in effect until revoked or 
modified by the Governor.   
GIVEN, under my hand and seal this  
15th day of August,  
Two Thousand and Twenty-two, 
and of the Independence of 
the United States, the Two 
Hundred and Forty-Seventh. 
 
[seal] 
/s/ Philip D. Murphy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Governor 
 
 
Attest:  
 
/s/ Parimal Garg  
 
Chief Counsel to the Governor  
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