6th Circuit Says Hospital Waited Too Long To Arbitrate In Religious Bias Case

( September 17, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that a Michigan hospital’s request for arbitration “came too late” and that it lost its right to arbitrate under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) after it placed proceedings in a “default” by first moving to dismiss the case of a former employee who filed federal religious discrimination and related claims after she was fired for refusing to offer “gender transition” drugs or use “biology-obscuring pronouns” when speaking to patients....