

This involves ’jumping’ over them to the next available square in a diagonal direction. The objective of checkers is to capture all your opponent's pieces on the board. The Checkers board game is played by two players on a conventional 8x8 Chess board.Ĭalled Checkers because of the pattern on the board, it originated from another middle eastern board game, Qirkat, with similar rules and layout. “The presence of a single, limited medical exemption to a vaccine requirement does not require the State to provide a blanket religious exemption from vaccination,” they said in their written submissions.Checkers – also known as draughts – is a strategy board game characterized by its unique set of uniform pieces that can only move diagonally across a board. Those requirements, too, allow exemptions only for medical reasons. Lawyers for the state said the Covid mandate was similar to longstanding rules requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against measles and rubella.

Thomas, along with Alito and Gorsuch, wrote Thursday that the court should have taken the case. Thomas wrote that confusion remains about mandates like New York’s that provide no religious exemption and that the court should have taken the case now to head off similar confusion in the future. They said the mandate violated their religious freedom because it allowed others who were unvaccinated to continue working. Sixteen health care workers then sued, saying they had religious objections because fetal cell lines were involved in the testing, development or production of Covid vaccines.
