Paralegal’s Public Anti-Vaccine Stance Dooms ADA Disclosure Case

A former paralegal openly shared her opposition to the Covid-19 vaccine with multiple coworkers, so a law firm partner’s disclosure of her stance to the press didn’t violate federal disability law’s confidentiality requirements.

The worker argued the Philadelphia firm, Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC, ran afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act when the partner shared her vaccine refusal with a journalist reporting on her separate wage-and-hour suit against the firm. But she voluntarily offered information about her vaccine status, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Monday.

Plaintiff Desiree Purvenas-Hayes spent nearly a decade as ...