The New York City Law Department urged a Manhattan federal appeals court on Tuesday to leave in place a vaccine mandate for public school teachers, while two sets of plaintiffs seek to have the policy stopped.

City attorneys said in a court filing that the teachers had not shown that the mandate violated their religious rights or that any plaintiff had actually been denied a religious exemption after invoking a proven religious belief.

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