A Title VII lawsuit was filed last week by the Justice Department on behalf of a newly-hired Seventh Day Adventist detention officer against the city of Lansing, Michigan. The complaint (full text) in United States v. City of Lansing, Michigan, (WD MI, filed 7/15/2022) alleges that the city "failed to provide [the officer] with a reasonable accommodation or to show undue hardship and terminated her employment because she could not work from Friday sundown through Saturday sundown due to her religious observance of the Sabbath..." The Justice Department issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit.
