New York City was just hit by a lawsuit over its oppressive vaccine mandate. Cornerstone Realty, a Staten Island real estate firm, is suing the liberal city over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine requirement for employers.

The lawsuit alleges that de Blasio’s authoritative rule prevents employers from pursuing their livelihoods out of fear they will be reprimanded for employees’ private health decisions.

Newsmax reports:

“This case is not about vaccines, but about an employer’s right to be heard when the [Department of Health and Mental Hygiene] and the City pass a sweeping — and first in the nation — law meant to fight the COVID-19 pandemic,” the class action complaint stated.

The mandate was one of former Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final acts before leaving office. He set a Dec. 27, 2021, deadline for virtually all private sector businesses — roughly 184,000 businesses that employ hundreds of thousands of people — to require workers to show proof they’ve gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The city’s mandate is even stricter than the rule imposed by President Biden, which allows those refusing to get the vaccine to undergo regular Covid tests.

According to the lawsuit, the city is violating the constitutional rights of business owners to make a living, and New York City has no authority under federal law to impose vaccine mandates on private-sector companies, although such requirements already exist for restaurants, bars, theaters, gyms, and other indoor gathering places.

“As the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote work is impossible for Cornerstone Realty’s agents, who must be physically present to show or list properties. Businesses like Cornerstone Realty are similarly situated across New York City,” the lawsuit states.

Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was also named in the lawsuit, say he does not plan to rescind de Blasio’s mandate.