I submitted a religious exemption for COVID experimental vaccine at workplace last year and was denied. I have all the documentation to prove this happened and had really well written evidence for proof of religion and also notice that they were violating my freedom of religion. They approved after my 2nd or 3rd rebuttal. This caused emotional harm to me and was stressful knowing I may have to get a death vaxx or lose my job. Theres some other factors here im leaving out but does anyone have any idea how to go about finding a good lawyer for this? I think maybe the frontline doctors had lawyers on their site? There was a recent lawsuit that those nurses won so I really think we have a cut and dry case here for a few million at least. Can someone please point me in the right direction here? Q said class actions were effective and I dont want this employer to pull the same shit in the future. Thank you so much for reading.
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I dont think you have a case if your problem was resolved by working through a rebuttal process and you didnt suffer any proveable damage. "Emotional harm" doesnt seem like good reason to tackle a corporation with an nearly infinate war chest. Just my 2 cents. As always, consult a real lawyer.
Agree with you but I'm not a lawyer
So when it happens again this year I just dont respond or let them fire me instead and sue them? I understand your perspective but still think I have a case. What if I was pregnant? Emotional damage was ridiculous then...loss of sleep...loss of appetite. All due to this stress.
I went through the same thing with my employer. I filled out the exemption and then had to wait months on an answer - was one of the most stressful times of my life. Thinking I might lose my job, income, place to live etc. Thank God my exemption was approved, but yes it was terrible not knowing how things would pan out. Maybe if you could get more employees to join in with you, it would have a better chance at success
If it happens again, maybe you have a different case. Not sure I know of any cases won over loss of sleep and appetite. Good luck.
You essentially won on "appeal" It took you 3 times but at least it did not cost you time in court and the expense of an attorney. Savor your win. I don't think you have a case. If they try to do it again, the NorthShore case won last week that won $10.3MM may begin setting court precedent.
My daughter in law was fired from Mass General after having had a religious exemption in place for over a year. She is part of a class action presently. I am very encouraged by the win last week.
Jeff Childers' "Coffee and Covid" newslatter from July 30 summed up the win as follows:
Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel of Orlando, another civil rights powerhouse, settled another class-action vaccine case with a private employer who refused to recognize religious exemptions for $10.2 million dollars yesterday.
According to a statement on Liberty’s website, Staver sued NorthShore University HealthSystem “on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the covid shot mandate.”
Lol. Mat always calls them the covid “shots.”
Anyway, assuming the Court approves the settlement, Liberty will get about $2M, or 20% — a VERY reasonable contingency fee — and each terminated employee will get $25,000. The statement estimates that even employees who weren’t terminated, but who were coerced to take the shot, will each get $3,000. The figures aren’t the important thing.
We’ve been waiting for a win like this for two years. What’s important is that, to the legal community, this case is like discovering a new legal continent. Law firms that have been sitting on the sidelines because “nobody can win vaccine cases and make money” will smell the sweet scent of cash and a flotilla of legal ships will set sail for the new world.
Private employers who decided to “play doctor” with their employees and force them to take shots will likely be paying through the nose for years and years and years. As we predicted over a year ago when all this madness started, it’s going to be bigger than the tobacco litigation.
I’ll also add that I recently spoke to one of our allied attorneys who said she expects to receive her first EEOC letter suggesting that after the agency’s investigation, it appears “likely” that the employer illegally discriminated against the unjabbed employee by treating them as disabled, by requiring them to wear masks and take other actions not required of vaccinated employees.
There is a small but well-developed set of case law holding that employers can’t just assume that a healthy employee is sick simply because they are in some at-risk category. Consider the case of an employer treating a healthy gay person as having AIDS and requiring them to work from home or something. That’s not fair. It turns out that kind of differential treatment violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Lawyers are now arguing that employers who discriminated against healthy unvaccinated employees by requiring masks or segregating them violated their ADA rights by assuming they were disabled.
Assuming this works, employers may have liability even though they accepted religious exemptions, because they discriminated somehow against the employees who invoked their religious exemptions to the jabs. Get ready! The legal gold rush may be starting. Too bad so many employers trusted that the federal government would have small businesses’ back. Not so much.
I appreciate the comment. Oorah to your 2 sons!
If they pull the same stunt and deny the religious exemption this season do you think I have a lawsuit or do I just fight it again with my own legal paperwork to get exempt status. Its a bit exhausting.
Thank you again for your input!
I agree that it is exhausting to try to fight this on your own. You were successful in the first round after some stuggle, but now you also have the wind at your back to some degree with precedent - in that they granted the exemption (as they should have per Civil Rights Act) and now this latest case victory for our side in Illinois affirms your right-standing. With time this is coming our way nationally. If the heat begins to rise in your office, refer your employers to the successes of vackz challenges already acheived and the advise them regarding costs they will sustain if they continue to abuse you for your religion informed health choice.
God Bless you and I hope you get millions of dollars.
You have no moral or ethical case.
They are in clear violation of the Nuremberg codes that USA signed up tocbe included in.
The penalty for experimenting on humans without their fully informed consent is the death penalty.
Do not say you won't get it. If they say you have to have the jab or lose your job then you should say you are willing to have it provided they give you full disclosure of all ingredients...some are secret and they won't say....also full disc losure of all safety trials and results and the amount of dead and injured due to vaxxing...
Tests are also breaking the code as are masks. To make someone wear a medical device is against the code.
They won't be able to give you the details and you should also let them have a copy of the Nuremberg codes.
They know you are on to them which is why they caved in. You don't have sufficient grounds ino for a case
Never sue for more than it costs to have you killed. Call me paranoid, but that's my take.
Get one or more consultations from local employment attorneys. You will likely need proof of harm. In this case, maybe testimony from therapists, doctors, or religious leaders you visited while distressed.