Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:

• In Magram v. Beavers, a retired Brigadier General in the Air National Guard sued his former supervisor in California state court, alleging both discrimination and wrongful termination on account of his Jewish heritage.
• In Vitsaxaki v. Skaneateles Central School District, a Greek Orthodox mother sued a school district in federal court in New York, alleging that the district had socially transitioned her middle-school aged daughter without her knowledge and consent in violation of the mother’s free exercise right to raise her child according to her religious beliefs.
• In Chavez v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a federal district court in California refused to certify as a class a group of employees who were denied a religious exemption from a COVID vaccine mandate due to the inconsistent nature of the class members’ beliefs.
• In Babayev v. Azerbaijan, the European Court of Human Rights held that Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights was violated by an Azerbaijani law prohibiting citizens with religious training abroad from conducting Islamic religious rituals within the country.
• In State of Florida v. Gonzalez, a state appellate court found that Florida’s clergy-penitent privilege did not apply to a recording of a defendant’s meeting with church leaders in a child molestation case, since the statutory requirement of confidentiality was not met.
• The EEOC announced that it has entered into a $70,000 settlement with an employer who refused to grant an accommodation to a Muslim employee regarding its no-beard policy, despite the fact it would not cost the employer anything to do so nor burden its operations.