17 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Covid-19"'.
J. Lasnik dismisses a lawsuit in which the former chief of inventory management for King County Metro Transit accuses the county of not accommodating her religious exemption to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, placing her on administrative leave and then firing her. The former chief did not give the county timely notice of a religious conflict, because she makes no attempt to explain how a Covid-19 vaccine injection qualifies as a defilement of God's temple while vaccine injections for other illnesses do not, and she acknowledges that neither injections nor vaccines are forbidden in her belief system.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Lasnik, Filed On: April 29, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv823, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, covid-19
J. Donnelly tosses an employment discrimination complaint against Stony Brook University Medical Center on claims that it denied a nurse’s request for a religious exemption from its Covid-19 mandate and subsequently placed her on unpaid leave until she resigned. Her complaint fails to allege her employer’s actions were motivated by her religion. York’s health department removed religious exemptions from its vaccine mandate, and as such the healthcare provider would have been in violation of the mandate had they granted her request for an exemption for religious purposes.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv135, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Rice dismisses without leave to amend the healthcare workers' complaint that Gov. Inslee violated the healthcare workers' civil rights by requiring them to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, resulting in their termination when they refused. Inslee is entitled to qualified immunity on these claims because the healthcare workers cannot claim that Inslee and others unlawfully "subjected" them to any investigational medical product or procedure as the healthcare workers undisputedly rejected the FDA-approved Pfizer vaccine.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Washington, Judge: Rice, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv295, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, covid-19
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J. Mazzant denies partial summary judgment to the professor in his suit stemming from the nonrenewal of his contract that he alleges was done in retaliation "for speaking as a private citizen on matters of public concern." The professor co-wrote an article in which he called for removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Dallas and also posted on social media about the college's Covid-19 policies. The professor did not show the college's Code of Professional Ethics and Employee Expression Policy were unconstitutionally vague.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Mazzant, Filed On: November 4, 2023, Case #: 4:22cv184, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, covid-19
J. Sison rules a County employee may pursue civil rights claims against the State of Illinois. The County employee, who was fired for refusing to wear a mask during the Covid-19 pandemic, sufficiently showed in court that the State may have wrongfully charged him for insurance premiums that were not withheld from his paychecks.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Sison, Filed On: September 26, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv2534, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, covid-19
J. Pratt finds for an employer in claims seeking exemptions to the Covid-19 vaccine policy because the policy applied to all workers, and employees failed to demonstrate they had been singled out due to their religion, thereby failing to demonstrate they had been subjected to a hostile work environment due to religious beliefs.
Court: USDC Southern District of Indiana, Judge: Pratt, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1650, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, covid-19
J. Self finds in favor of the employer in a civil rights, emotional distress and breach of contract action brought by the Christian ex-employee alleging religious-based discrimination. The employee was fired for insubordination after refusing to follow the employer's Covid-19 vaccination policy. The doctor who founded the employer is not an employee subject to the employer's control, therefore the employer does not meet the Title VII definition of "employer" because it did not have 15 or more employees per working day. The employer cannot be held liable under Title VII.
Court: USDC Middle District of Georgia, Judge: Self, Filed On: August 2, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv75, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, covid-19, employment Discrimination