{"id":2755,"date":"2024-09-25T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-employee-in-covid-19-religious-discrimination-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:54:08","slug":"judge-sides-with-employee-in-covid-19-religious-discrimination-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-employee-in-covid-19-religious-discrimination-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sides With Employee In COVID-19 Religious Discrimination Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Relying on recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit precedent, a federal judge in Missouri is allowing an employee\u2019s religious discrimination suit to continue against her former employer, finding it couldn\u2019t conclude as a matter of law that the employee\u2019s claimed religious objections to COVID-19 protocols were not based on sincerely held religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13CQ45NPEd5tkOVnUtSe2jXQitVXxqFz7\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sept. 19 opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry dismissed the defendant, American Association of Orthodontists\u2019 summary judgment motion in a religious discrimination claim filed by the plaintiff, Katherine Maria Pinners, concluding she sufficiently established she had a known religious belief and suffered an adverse employment action because this belief conflicted with her employer\u2019s requirement of wearing a mask or getting vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit precedent, a federal judge in Missouri is allowing an employee\u2019s religious discrimination suit to continue against her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[500,349,2461,423,387,704,339],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-covid19","tag-discrimination","tag-employee","tag-judge","tag-religious","tag-sides","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}