( October 1, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel opined that a lower court was not correct in granting a summary judgment order to a state health care system that was sued for religious discrimination by a surgical tech who worked at one of its hospitals after she was fired for failing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, finding that the employee’s belief that “her body is a temple of God” and that she determined through prayer that she could not get the vaccine could be considered religious for the purpose of an exemption, that the accommodation would not create an undue hardship and that the health care system and hospital could be classified as joint employers....