August 19, 2025
The NBA secured a partial victory in a religious discrimination lawsuit challenging its COVID-19 protocols, with a Manhattan federal judge tossing the testimony of a fired referee's expert witness and ruling that the league's refusal to let him work unvaccinated was a justified business necessity.
April 01, 2025
Former NBA referee Leroy Richardson lost in a "final and binding" arbitration of his religious discrimination claim against the league, and thus should not be awarded a win in his suit over his firing for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination, the NBA has told a New York federal court.