( April 20, 2026, 10:26 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a split vote with two dissents, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition to rehear en banc a case in which a panel majority affirmed the dismissal of a fired Oregon medical center administrative employee’s lawsuit challenging her termination for refusing to submit to weekly antigen testing for COVID-19 as an accommodation of a religious exemption from a company vaccine mandate, despite both parties calling for another look at the case....