( June 20, 2025, 3:37 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A panel of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of a South Dakota federal court, which dismissed the lawsuit of a former employee who was terminated for refusing to comply with his employer’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-test policy after determining that a proposed amended complaint failed to establish an adequate factual basis for his claimed religious objection to COVID testing....