Fired Employee Who Refused COVID Shot Settles With Employer After New Trial Grant

( March 18, 2026, 11:20 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A transit authority and its former employee have reached a settlement in the employee’s lawsuit seeking damages for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act stemming from his termination for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after an Illinois federal judge granted a new trial because he had failed to include a mixed-motive jury instruction on the issue of a transit authority’s motivation for terminating the employee....