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ADF to 4th Circuit: Courts are not religious inquisitors

Theological seminaries challenge Biden administration's vaccine mandate.

Religious organizations join states' challenge to Biden administration's private employer vaccine mandate.

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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President for Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Barnett v. INOVA Health Services. In the case, a lower court ruled that a health services employee did not have sufficient religious objections to a vaccine requirement by her employer: “America’s legal system is built on a foundation that highly respects the religious beliefs of individuals, and the First Amendment and Title VII uphold ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys, along with counsel at Wiley Rein, LLP, filed at the U.S. Supreme Court Friday on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association in Dr. A. v. Hochul, a case in which 16 medical professionals are challenging New York’s mandate that forces health care workers to receive a COVID-19 vaccine over their sincere religious opposition to it: “Health care workers, like every other member of the American workforce, are free ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a public comment ADF submitted Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration opposing its proposal to make the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard permanent in any way: “Mandating vaccines through an OSHA emergency rule is an alarming example of government overreach, and the Biden administration should immediately withdraw its unlawful proposal to make the mandate permanent. This proposed standard violates religious ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Ryan Bangert regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to halt implementation of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large, private employers, issued via the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: “The Supreme Court correctly concluded that the federal administrative state has no authority to treat unvaccinated employees like workplace hazards and to compel employers to carry out the government’s unlawful national vaccine mandate. The Biden administration’s mandate would ...

ADF attorneys filed emergency application for stay after 6th Circuit panel decided OSHA vaccine mandate can proceed

ADF attorneys represent Kentucky seminaries in federal lawsuit, motion accompanying petition asks 6th Circuit to halt enforcement of mandate