Firefighters Fail to Revive Covid-19 Vaccine Religious Bias Case

Firefighters placed on leave for failing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 didn’t show they deserve another chance at their religious discrimination claims, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue, based in Washington state, established that it couldn’t accommodate eight firefighters’ religious opposition to a statewide vaccine mandate without facing undue hardship, meeting a heightened standard the US Supreme Court handed down two years ago, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. The court rejected the workers’ call to overturn a summary judgment ruling in favor of their employer.

The firefighters’ case is ...