Justices Skip Religious Maine Health Workers’ Covid Vaccine Suit

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a challenge by a group of Maine health-care workers to their terminations after they were denied religious exemptions from the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The seven former employees of various Maine health-care providers said in their petition seeking review that the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit failed to account for the unusual nature of the state’s August 2021 requirement that health-care workers needed to be vaccinated against the novel virus in order to work in the industry: its lack of any consideration for objections based on a worker’s ...