Baptist Honeywell Worker’s Covid Vaccine-Refusal Claim Revived

Honeywell International Inc. must face a Lousiana dock operator’s claim over his firing after being denied a religious exemption from its Covid-19 vaccine mandate and continuing refusal to get vaccinated, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

A jury could find the Baptist Christian man sincerely believed that being vaccinated would violate his religious beliefs, and a lower court was wrong to decide that fact issue without a trial, a unanimous panel said Tuesday. It cited the former employee’s religious exemption request form, his daughter’s attestation of their faith, and the testimony of the employee and an expert witness in finding disputed material ...