( October 30, 2025, 10:11 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority ruled that religious discrimination claims filed by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) employees over requests for exemption from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate are not moot despite recission of the mandate before their claims were addressed, reversing a Texas federal judge’s dismissal and remanding the case to the trial court....