March 21, 2025
MGM Grand Casino said attorneys for a fired employee cannot recoup more than three times the $133,000 a Michigan federal jury awarded him earlier this year in his lawsuit alleging he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
March 07, 2025
A former MGM Grand Detroit casino worker who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination has asked a judge to award attorney fees and pre- and post-judgment interest on top of a Detroit jury's $133,000 verdict in his favor.
January 16, 2025
A Michigan federal jury on Thursday awarded $133,000 to a fired MGM Grand Detroit warehouse worker who had alleged he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
January 08, 2025
An attorney for a fired MGM Grand Detroit warehouse manager harked back to the American Revolution to try to persuade a Michigan federal jury during opening statements that his client was wrongfully denied an exemption from the casino's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
January 06, 2025
A former MGM Grand Detroit employee will try to convince a federal jury this week that the casino and hotel improperly denied his request for religious exemption from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, while MGM Grand is preparing to argue that the worker's shifting answers can't prove his purported beliefs were sincere.
November 19, 2024
A Michigan federal judge refused to toss a religious bias suit from a worker who said the MGM Grand Detroit fired him for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination, ruling a jury should decide whether the casino could have accommodated his beliefs by letting him skip the jab.
August 06, 2024
Detroit casino MGM Grand has urged a Michigan federal court to not grant default judgment to former employees protesting its vaccination policies, arguing the request is drastic and that any delay in producing discovery documents was justified and harmless.
August 24, 2023
MGM Grand Casino must face claims from former employees that they were discriminated against based on their religious beliefs for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine because the workers showed enough evidence to support their allegations they experienced disparate treatment, a Michigan federal judge said Thursday.
March 09, 2023
MGM Grand Casino has asked a Michigan federal judge to toss a suit by former employees who claim they were discriminated against on religious grounds for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, saying the lead plaintiff never informed his superiors of his religious beliefs when he asked for an exemption.
December 09, 2022
MGM Grand Casino discriminated against workers who requested religious and medical exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate by firing them, according to a lawsuit filed in Michigan federal court.