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If Prayer Isn’t Enough to Support a Religious Exemption Request, What Is?

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hen does a religious exemption request stop being religious? A federal appeals court just answered that question in a way that eight of its own judges found alarming.

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DR: The Ninth Circuit denied rehearing en banc in a Title VII religious accommodation case, leaving in place a panel decision that dismissed an employee’s failure-to-accommodate claim arising from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The panel held that the employee’s objection to weekly

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