5th Circuit Remands Louisiana Dock Operator’s Claims Over COVID-19 Vaccine Firing

( August 20, 2025, 10:21 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that a Louisiana dock operator who was fired for failing to get a COVID-19 vaccine after denial of a religious exemption request presented “sufficient evidence” to pursue claims of religious discrimination and disparate treatment, reversing and remanding the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to his former employer....