( February 17, 2026, 11:37 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A split Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a lower court’s dismissal of Title VII claims brought by more than 100 employees of a Pennsylvania hospital network against their employer alleging failure to provide a reasonable accommodation for exemption from a systemwide COVID-19 vaccine policy on religious grounds, finding that the employees “plausibly alleged the circumstantial unreasonableness of” an accommodation that required them to undergo testing using swabs sterilized with a carcinogen....