Mayo Clinic Beats Covid-19 Vax Objectors’ Religious Bias Claims

The Mayo Clinic and related entities won dismissal of five lawsuits alleging religious and other bias in handling employee religious concerns over their Covid-19 vaccine mandate and testing requirement for unvaccinated workers.

The ruling by the US District Court for the District of Minnesota turned partly on whether the objections to Covid vaccination or other preventive measures the five Christian former employees cited were sufficiently religious under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The issue has been addressed in other recent decisions involving Covid vaccine cases.

Shelly Kiel failed with her religious accommodation claims based on the denial ...