Federal Reserve Worker’s Covid Shot Religious Bias Suit Revived

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York must face religious liberty claims by an employee who was denied a permanent accommodation from its Covid-19 vaccination mandate and later fired, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

A lower court drew improper factual conclusions in granting the bank summary judgment on the former C-suite executive assistant’s allegations under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the First Amendment, a unanimous panel said. Its missteps included rejecting the sincerity of her Catholic-based beliefs because her pastor refused to sign her religious exemption request form and finding her ...