9th Cir. Weighs ‘Undue’ Cost in Lionsgate Vax Bias Case (1)

A federal appeals court appeared hesitant to reinstate an actress’s lawsuit claiming that she was wrongfully terminated from the second season of the TV show “Run the World” after she declined to receive a Covid-19 vaccine on religious grounds.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit repeatedly pushed back during oral arguments Wednesday against Andrea Bordeaux’s assertion that a California federal judge employed an incorrect methodology in determining that her request for an exemption from the vaccine requirement would impose significant financial costs on Lions Gate Entertainment Inc., the entertainment company that owns the ...