Health Care Workers Axed For COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal Fail In 6th Circuit Appeal

( October 9, 2025, 1:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In ruling on one of “a spate of appeals related to vaccination orders spawned by COVID-19,” a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel opined that dozens of at-will, nonprofit health care workers who sued the Washington governor and their employer after they were fired for refusing the state-mandated shot did not succeed in stating “wide-ranging sources of purported rights” to support federal claims and did not provide enough evidence to reverse the lower court’s ruling dismissing and remanding state law claims....