Abortion-Based Religious Exemption Claim Over COVID-19 Vaccine Survives Motion to Dismiss, Virginia Federal Judge Rules
In a July 19 opinion, U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff for the District of Virginia dismissed former Inova Health Care Services employees’ Title VII religious-discrimination claims, except for one employee’s abortion-based religious exemption, finding he had properly linked his belief to his religion and its relation to the vaccine.