Sujata Sidhu Gibson, Attorney at Law

01/29/2026

Prayers up everyone! Seriously, this is significant.

Children’s Health Defense is seeking a temporary restraining order to allow two New York high school students to attend school until the courts rule in a lawsuit challenging the state’s repeal of religious exemptions. One of the teens, 17-year-old Raphael Goe, has Down syndrome and has been losi...

12/08/2025

Breaking news! The Supreme Court just granted cert in a case about the religious exemptions to vaccines (Miller v. McDonald) and immediately overturned the second circuit's dismissal of these claims. Second Circuit now is directed to issue a new decision in light of precedent that they really can't get around. It's game over. We're getting the religious exemption back! Thank you Aaron Siri and all the people who have been working tirelessly on this for so long.

07/21/2025

Today, we filed a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court in Kane v. de Blasio today (now Kane v. City of New York). NYC adopted an openly discriminatory written religious accommodation policy that allowed Christian Scientists to be accommodated, but categorically excluded Catholics, Jews and most others. This case impacts thousands of City workers and the security of our most basic constitutional protections.

Eric Adams is STILL BLOCKING UNVACCINATED WORKERS from returning to our jobs

12/07/2023

Grateful to Naomi Wolf for having me on her show, and for exploring difficult topics with grace and bravery.

Dr. Naomi Wolf and Attorney Sujata Gibson discuss potential avenues of peace, and what it will take for humanity as a whole to get back in

09/07/2023

Breaking news in DiCapua v. NYC: in a watershed decision, Judge Porzio reinstated 10 NYC teachers with back pay, full seniority and benefits and awarded attorneys fees after finding their denials of religious accommodation “arbitrary and capricious.” But, he denied class certification. We are making a motion to reconsider that and some other points, but still celebrating this important win!

08/31/2023

Update on DiCapua v. City of New York (NYC Teacher's religious discrimination case related to C-19 V): prayer vigil at 2:30pm before court on September 6, 2023 in the Richmond County Supreme Court (Staten Island). At 3:30, the Judge will let us know whether he the Court will certify a class and the decision on the Article 78 relief seeking reinstatement, back pay and other damages. Come if you can!

07/27/2023

Big news in DiCapua v. City of New York. The Court denied New York City's motion to dismiss in its entirety. The NYC public school teachers' religious discrimination claims are all going forward. Motion for class action certification will be argued on August 14, 2023 at 11:30 am. Rally starts at 10:30 am outside the Richmond County Supreme Court (Staten Island). Peaceful presence welcome and encouraged. Dress up, says the Judge. Hope to see you there.

07/03/2023

Save the date: on July 18, 2023, arguments at noon/rally at 11am outside of court.

On July 18, we are scheduled for oral arguments in the Richmond County Supreme Court in the NYC DOE religious exemption discrimination case DiCapua v. City of New York (state law offshoot of Kane v. de Blasio). This is a big appearance. The Judge will be deciding whether to certify a class action of religious employees denied reasonable accommodation from the Covid-Vaccine mandate. Public and potential class members welcome to attend. People are gathering beforehand outside of the courthouse at 11am. Please be respectful and quiet in and out of court so that the Judge can focus on our arguments.

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06/02/2023

While the 34,000 healthcare workers who lost their jobs because of the state's vaccine mandate are happy for the win, the fight is not over. A lot remains to be done to make sure that this precedent is not erased and that these frontline workers are made whole. Here is some more recent coverage.

St. Joseph's Health Hospital and Crouse Hospital said that they will invite back employees that either left or were fired after choosing not to get the COVID-19

05/31/2023

Last week in the appellate courts, the DOH surprised everyone by announcing that rather than argue the merits of their appeal, they were dropping the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Here is some good coverage of what happened. https://www.whec.com/top-news/nys-attorney-state-is-repealing-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/?fbclid=IwAR3GDb1jfn_0E-OMiFrf5X-fM2KV9Y1xB0FC0v_cC0_bZpyUH1SvDlOx-Uw

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An attorney for the New York State Department of Health says the state is repealing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The attorney spoke at an appeals court on East Avenue in downtown Rochester on Wednesday morning.“I would like to advise the court that the State Health Department ...

05/22/2023

Oral arguments on Wednesday 5/24/23 (Court starts at 10am) to defend state Supreme Court decision striking down the healthcare worker vaccine mandate. Link and address below.

Livestream:
https://ad4.nycourts.gov/njs/term/argument/calendar?date=2023-05-22T00:00:00.000Z&venue=1

Physical address:
Samuel L. Green Courtroom
M. Dolores Denman Courthouse
50 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604

Parking and Courthouse info: Appellate 4th (nycourts.gov)

May Term Calendar -- Watch Oral Arguments Live and On-Demand. The State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department includes twenty-two counties located in Central and Western New York.