Case: Discrimination/Religious Accommodation (N.D. Tex.)

A Texas federal district court granted summary judgment to the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas on religious discrimination and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act brought by a Baptist receptionist who was denied a religious accommodation to exempt her from a Covid-19 vaccine requirement for a new position, ruling that as religious organizations, the defendants were statutorily exempt from liability for religious discrimination claims regardless of their reasons for denying the accommodation.

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