Sambrano v. United Airlines

  1. August 18, 2022

    Full 5th Circ. Won't Rehear United Vaccine Mandate Row

    The full Fifth Circuit won't review a panel's February decision blocking United Airlines Inc. from forcing unpaid leave on employees who claimed religious exemptions from the airline's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but a dissenting judge on Thursday decried how the divided panel demolished long-standing tenets of worker discrimination law.

  2. March 18, 2022

    United Workers Urge 5th Circ. To Keep Vax Mandate Grounded

    The Fifth Circuit shouldn't vacate a panel's decision that a United Airlines COVID-19 vaccine mandate would harm its religious employees, the workers told the appellate court, saying the ruling would prevent future discriminatory policies from the company.

  3. March 10, 2022

    United Says Vaccine Policy Shift Moots Workers' Challenge

    United Airlines urged the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to throw out an ongoing challenge to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying it is no longer requiring workers who skipped the shot for religious reasons to take unpaid leave.

  4. February 17, 2022

    5th Circ. Backs Workers Fighting United Airlines Vax Mandate

    A split Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday overturned a lower court's refusal to enjoin United Airlines from forcing workers who received religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to take unpaid leave, with one judge issuing a scathing dissent.

  5. January 03, 2022

    5th Circ. Questions Success Of United Vax Mandate Challenge

    A Fifth Circuit panel on Monday seemed split over whether United Airlines Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine mandate coerces employees to get inoculated against their religious beliefs and should be halted as a group of employees challenges the policy in Texas federal court.

  6. December 14, 2021

    Split 5th Circ. Won't Block United Vax Mandate Amid Appeal

    A Fifth Circuit panel late Monday declined to block United Airlines Inc. from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a group of employees proceed with an appeal in their proposed class action alleging that United's "calloused" refusal to accommodate employees' religious or medical exemptions violates federal law.

  7. November 23, 2021

    United Workers Can't Halt Vax Mandate Amid 5th Circ. Appeal

    A Texas federal judge on Tuesday refused to block United Airlines Inc. from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a group of employees pursue a Fifth Circuit appeal in their proposed class action alleging that United's "calloused" refusal to accommodate employees' religious or medical exemptions violates federal law.