Showing posts with label Vaccination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vaccination. Show all posts
Sunday, October 05, 2025

Supreme Court Term Opens Monday with Several Cases of Interest on Its Docket

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The U.S. Supreme Court's fall term opens tomorrow, Oct. 6. There are a number of cases on the Court's Docket for this term that are ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Kansas Supreme Court: Expanded Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate Is Not in Conflict with Title VII

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In Powerback Rehabilitation, LLC v. Kansas Department of Labor ,  (KS Sup. Ct., Sept. 26, 2025), the Kansas Supreme Court in a 4-2 decision,...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

9th Circuit: Employee's Objection to Covid Vaccine Accommodation Was Not Religious

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 In Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center ,  (9th Cir., Sept. 23, 2025), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, affirme...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

9th Circuit Upholds Fire Department's Denial of Religious Exemptions from Covid Vaccine Mandate

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In Petersen v. Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue ,  (9th Cir., Sept. 2, 2025), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by eig...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

HHS Pressures West Virginia To Implement Religious Exemptions from Compulsory School Vaccination Law

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 As reported by Med Page Today , the Department of Health and Human Services is pressuring the state of West Virginia to recognize religious...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

5th Circuit: Anti-Vax Belief in Bodily Autonomy Can Support Title VII Religious Discrimination Claim

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In Wright v. Honeywell International, Inc .,  (5th Cir., Aug. 5, 2025), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's d...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Cert. Filed In Challenge to Denial of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Kane v. City of New York. (Sup. Ct., cert.  filed...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Mass. Top Court Says Rastafarian Parents Can Bar Vaccination of Their Child Who Is In Temporary State Custody

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In Care and Protection of Eve ,  (MA Sup. Jud. Ct., May 15, 2025), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that the Department of Chil...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

West Virginia Governor Tells Schools to Provide Religious and Philosophical Exemptions from Vaccine Requirements

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Last week, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey released a letter ( full text ) addressed to parents, students and school officials reaff...

Employees' Suit Against School Board for Denying Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Moves Ahead

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Decisions in suits by former employees who were denied religious exemptions from employer Covid vaccine mandates continue to be handed down ...
Friday, April 11, 2025

3rd Circuit Rejects Title VII Claim by ER Doctor Who Was Denied Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate

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In Bushra v. Main Line Health, Inc. ,  (3d Cir., April 10, 2025), the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a Title VI...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Court Upholds California's Repeal of Personal Belief Exemption from School Vaccination Mandate

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 In Royce v. Pan ,  (SD CA, March 17, 2025), a California federal district court rejected a free exercise challenge to California's remo...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

2nd Circuit Rejects Amish Challenge to Removal of Religious Exemption from School Vaccine Requirements

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In Miller v. McDonald ,  (2d Cir., March 3, 2025), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that New York state's removal of a religio...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Executive Orders Call for Military Reinstatement of Vaccine Objectors, Military Exclusion of Transgender Individuals

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Yesterday, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's Covid-19 Vaccina...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Kansas Court Says Statute Sets Low Threshold for Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate

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In St. Luke's Health System, Inc. v. State of Kansas ex rel. Schultz , (KS App., Jan. 17, 2025), a Kansas state appeals court held that ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

1st Circuit Accepts Employer's Undue Hardship Defense for Denying Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccination

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In  Rodrique v. Hearst Communications, Inc. , (1st Cir., Jan. 17, 2025), the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a Tit...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

4th Circuit: Covid Vaccine Religious Accommodation Suit Should Not Have Been Dismissed

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 In Barnett v. INOVA Health Care Services ,  (4th Cir., Jan. 7, 2025), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of Title...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

4th Circuit: Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply in Challenge to No Religious Exemption in Vaccination Law

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In West Virginia Parents for Religious Freedom v. Christiansen ,  (4th Cir., Dec. 31, 2024), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ...
Friday, December 27, 2024

EEOC Sues Employer for Refusal to Grant Religious Accommodation to Covid Vaccine Mandate

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The EEOC announced yesterday that it had filed a Title VII lawsuit against the North Carolina-based Rex Healthcare, Inc. for refusing to gr...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Hospital Employee's Vaccine Objections Were Religious

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In  Lavelle-Hayden v. Employment Dept. ,  (OR App., Dec. 18, 2024), an Oregon state appellate court held that a hospital respiratory therapi...