Kristen Barnett v. INOVA Health Care Services

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Case overview

Case Number:

24-1271

Court:

Appellate - 4th Circuit

Nature of Suit:

3442 Jobs

  1. July 11, 2024

    Hospital Urges 4th Circ. To Back Win In Worker's Vax Bias Suit

    A Virginia health system told the Fourth Circuit to let its win stand in a former nurse's lawsuit claiming she was unlawfully fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine because of her Christian beliefs, saying the nurse raised only her personal misgivings, not religion, in her exemption request. 

  2. June 24, 2024

    Ex-EEOC Top Cop Backs Vax Religious Bias Suit At 4th Circ.

    A former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Fourth Circuit to revive a nurse's suit claiming she was fired from a Virginia health system for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine due to her Christian beliefs, arguing a lower court misinterpreted federal civil rights law.