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Sambrano v. United Airlines
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August 18, 2022
The full Fifth Circuit won't review a panel's February decision blocking United Airlines Inc. from forcing unpaid leave on employees who claimed religious exemptions from the airline's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but a dissenting judge on Thursday decried how the divided panel demolished long-standing tenets of worker discrimination law.
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March 18, 2022
The Fifth Circuit shouldn't vacate a panel's decision that a United Airlines COVID-19 vaccine mandate would harm its religious employees, the workers told the appellate court, saying the ruling would prevent future discriminatory policies from the company.
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March 10, 2022
United Airlines urged the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to throw out an ongoing challenge to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying it is no longer requiring workers who skipped the shot for religious reasons to take unpaid leave.
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February 17, 2022
A split Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday overturned a lower court's refusal to enjoin United Airlines from forcing workers who received religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to take unpaid leave, with one judge issuing a scathing dissent.
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January 03, 2022
A Fifth Circuit panel on Monday seemed split over whether United Airlines Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine mandate coerces employees to get inoculated against their religious beliefs and should be halted as a group of employees challenges the policy in Texas federal court.
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December 14, 2021
A Fifth Circuit panel late Monday declined to block United Airlines Inc. from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a group of employees proceed with an appeal in their proposed class action alleging that United's "calloused" refusal to accommodate employees' religious or medical exemptions violates federal law.
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November 23, 2021
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday refused to block United Airlines Inc. from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a group of employees pursue a Fifth Circuit appeal in their proposed class action alleging that United's "calloused" refusal to accommodate employees' religious or medical exemptions violates federal law.