Public Health Authority
Case Updates
July 22, 2022
Case updates this week:

Thursday, July 14: A federal judge in Ohio certified a class action lawsuit and granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Air Force from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The plaintiffs, eighteen active duty and active reservist Airmen in the US Air force, allege the mandate violates the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. 

Tuesday, July 19: A federal magistrate judge in Ohio granted plaintiff’s motion to conduct discovery and denied defendants’ motion regarding scope of discovery in a case concerning a reservist in the US Air Force challenging the denial of their request for religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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