February 28, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit panel declined Friday to revive an actor's suit claiming she was illegally removed from a Starz Network show because she rejected its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, ruling her immunization status posed too much of a risk to the production.
January 01, 2025
While it's been nearly five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and four years since the first vaccines were authorized, workplace vaccination mandate lawsuits will still be on the docket in the new year. Here are three to watch.
December 04, 2024
The Ninth Circuit tried Wednesday to nail down the dollar amount that might constitute an "undue hardship" that would justify refusing to let an actor sidestep a workplace COVID-19 vaccine, as the judges sought to interpret a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that heightened the bar for denying religious accommodations.
November 27, 2024
The Ninth Circuit will have a chance to interpret the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Groff decision in a religious bias suit over a vaccine mandate, while the Fifth and Sixth circuits will hear from workers who have amicus backing from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in December.