1st Circuit Reinstates Maine Health Workers’ Constitutional Claims In Vaccine Suit

Mealey's (May 26, 2023, 1:44 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Health care providers did not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they fired workers who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the workers’ “requested accommodation would have caused undue hardship for the Providers”; however, the workers may proceed with constitutional claims against Maine “as it is plausible” that the state’s vaccine “[m]andate treats comparable secular and religious activity dissimilarly without adequate justification,” a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled May 25, affirming in part and reversing in part a ruling by a federal judge in Maine....