A hospital recently agreed to pay over $10 million in a class-action lawsuit for not granting religious accommodations in its COVID-19 vaccine policy. Now, an attorney on the legal team that won the lawsuit says this should be a warning to employers.
The U.S. Army announced on July 21 that it has approved just 20 permanent religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine after having received 8,000 requests so far. Out of the 8,000 applications for a permanent religious exemption, a total of 1,465 have been reviewed by the Army. Just 20 have been approved—equivalent to an approval […]
Getting a religious exemption for the COVID vaccine while serving in the military has been very rare. The United States Air Force has approved fewer than 2 percent of applicants. Now, a federal judge has stepped in.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from parents who sought to challenge New York lawmakers’ decision that eliminated religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren. On Monday, the nation’s high court released an order (pdf) announcing their decision not to hear arguments in the case F.F., as Parent of Y.F. v. New York, […]
U.S. District Court Judge Tilman Self, III, is the first to stop the U.S. Air Force from enforcing its military COVID-19 vaccine mandate on a service member. Self granted a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Defense on behalf of an Air Force officer who’d been denied a religious exemption to the mandate. As […]
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement presents the potential for a SCOTUS battle between Democrats and Republicans. What are both sides concerned about?
New York parents headed to the Supreme Court. They’re challenging the state for taking away religious exemptions for vaccinations from schoolchildren. It comes as the state ethics board sends out subpoenas for pandemic records to learn how conflicts of interests were resolved.
A hospital in Massachusetts allegedly denies a heart transplant to an unvaccinated patient. The man’s family says he’s worried about vaccine side effects, especially heart inflammation and blood clots.
At least 19 federal government agencies have implemented or are considering putting in place a system to track religious exemption requests for mandated vaccines, according to a review of Federal Register notices by The Epoch Times The agencies include the departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Treasury. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative […]
The U.S. Marine Corp. becomes the first branch of the military to grant a religious exemption to the vaccine mandates. The Supreme Court has ruled, and President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses is no longer in effect. How will this impact Americans moving forward? The U.S. Defense Department is sending additional military medical […]
A group of Navy SEALs has been battling for the right to an exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, and a judge in the case has just handed down some positive news to the SEALs. NTD spoke with one of the attorneys representing the SEALs, Jeremy Dys, an attorney at the First Liberty […]
Thousands of New York City school teachers are still on unpaid leave because they have not taken a COVID-19 vaccine. Two cases were heard on Wednesday regarding religious exemptions. And although no decision was made at the hearing, the teachers there said their faith brought them together.
According to secretly recorded audiotapes of hospital employees in Arizona, it appears to show that hospitals across the entire state are conducting COVID-19 protocols in lockstep with one another—including isolating patients longer than is recommended by the CDC, denying them permission to see either their attorneys or their family members, as well as denying them […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency request by health care workers seeking a religious exemption to the state of Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The court’s decision not to grant the immediate relief for the health care workers until it decides to review the case, means the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate will take […]
California will soon become the first state to mandate vaccines for eligible students in K–12, New York state health care workers can now file temporary religious exemptions against the vaccine mandate, and drugmaker Merck says its experimental drug for COVID-19 cuts the risk of death or hospitalization by 50 percent.
Two states are trying to make President Joe Biden bring back a Trump-era immigration policy. They say the law is on their side, and the administration is dragging its feet.
A global microchip shortage is further forcing down auto production numbers. The White House has called for aggressive action, saying the situation is getting worse.
For military members, getting a religious exemption from taking the COVID-19 vaccine may be harder than you think. The Pentagon is warning chaplains to watch out for troops who may want to avoid the vaccine by applying for a religious exemption.
The first university in the U.S. to mandate COVID vaccines is being sued. An advocacy group and students are accusing Rutgers of violating state and federal law. NTD’s Miguel Moreno has more from one of those students. He says his education depends on whether or not the university approves his application for a religious exemption.
