( August 21, 2026, 9:48 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, a fired Oregon medical center administrative employee wants the justices “to resolve Circuit conflict on an important question of Title VII interpretation” and “realign the Ninth and Third Circuits with the majority of their sister Circuits, and with this Court’s many, unequivocal decisions robustly protecting a broad range of religious beliefs” in a dispute over her termination after she refused to submit to weekly antigen testing for COVID-19 as an accommodation to a religious exemption from a company vaccine mandate....