Ohio Nurse’s Vaccine Faith Bias, Retaliation Case Axed on Appeal

An Ohio nurse failed to convince a federal appeals court to revive her religious discrimination suit alleging she was wrongfully put on unpaid leave after requesting a Covid-19 vaccine exemption.

Christina Henry failed to demonstrate sufficiently that her employer’s reasons for the unpaid leave were pretextual and that the accommodation she requested wouldn’t have placed undue hardship on Southern Ohio Medical Center, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday ...