Johns Hopkins Lab Defeats Disability Claim Over Covid Vaccine

A former employee of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab was unsuccessful in her bid to revive her disability accommodation suit after she refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

A lower court correctly concluded that Sally Tarquinio failed to explain why she required an exemption from the lab’s vaccine requirement, dooming her failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said Wednesday. Chief Judge Albert Diaz authored the opinion, joined by Judges A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. and Allison J. Rushing.