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Virus Testing Religious Discrimination

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Mandatory COVID Testing Did Not Violate Employee's Religious Beliefs

Lawsuits challenging employers' authority to require measures intended to prevent COVID-19 infections continue to wend their way through the federal judiciary. Last month, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Pennsylvania Federal Judge Tosses Challenge to Employer Jab or Swab Mandate

​​​​​​​On August 26, 2022, Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a putative class action representing approximately 100 healthcare...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Balancing Hospital Visitations and Religious Freedoms During a Pandemic

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On October 20, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) settled two religious discrimination complaints involving access to clergy during the Public Health Emergency. Both complaints arose from a hospital’s failure to permit...more

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