Appeals Court Revives Nurse’s COVID-19 Vaccine Lawsuit

Vaccination ‘is a means to an end,’ the opinion said.

A person receives a vaccine in Los Angeles, in an undated file photograph. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

A legal case brought by a nurse in Minnesota over her refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine will move forward under a June 15 decision from a federal appeals court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said that the nurse’s employer, the nonprofit CentraCare Health System, was wrong about its COVID-19 vaccine mandate being an essential policy.