55 page 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 2024 decision link favoring the med students https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/663bd07a66d645d57f832e4a_010111045465.pdf

Judge Ebel concurred in part, dissented in part

“Here, the University decided to provide a religious exemption, which suggests solitude, not animus, toward religious believers. … The criteria by which the University’s… mandate made those religious exemptions available— only two members of organized religions that officially opposed all immunizations— was constitutionally ill – conceived.”

“That criteria likely violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause because it favored employees who belonged to an organized religion that opposed all vaccines over employees with sincerely held religious beliefs against COVID vaccinations, who did not belong to any or organized religion.

55 page 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 2024 decision link favoring the med students https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/663bd07a66d645d57f832e4a_010111045465.pdf

Judge Ebel concurred in part, dissented in part

“Here, the University decided to provide a religious exemption, which suggests solitude, not animus, toward religious believers.. …. The criteria by which the University’s… mandate made those religious exemptions available— only two members of organized religions that officially opposed all immunizations— was constitutionally ill – conceived.”

“That criteria likely violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause because it favored employees who belonged to an organized religion that opposed all vaccines over employees with sincerely held religious beliefs against COVID vaccinations, who did not belong to any or organized religion.