San Francisco BART Gets Deadlocked Jury in Vaccine Mandate Trial

An eight-person jury unable to reach a decision Wednesday about whether the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District violated the rights of seven employees who lost their jobs after seeking religious exemptions to the agency’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The jury found that each of the seven plaintiffs suing the agency popularly known as BART had the basic elements for a religious discrimination claim but was deadlocked, 7-1, on whether BART had shown that granting an accommodation for the employees would cause an undue hardship on the agency.

Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District ...