Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Hospital Worker Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine

An appeals court has reinstated a religious discrimination lawsuit lodged by hospital worker who was fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Hospital Worker Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine
A health care worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine, in a file photograph. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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A Massachusetts hospital worker who was fired after unsuccessfully seeking a religious exemption from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has scored a win in a federal appeals court, which vacated a lower court’s dismissal of her religious discrimination lawsuit.

In a unanimous decision on Aug. 13, a three-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Massachusetts rejected the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts’ summary dismissal of the health worker’s case and ordered the lower court to reconsider her case.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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