8th Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing Of EEOC No Accommodation Retaliation Claim

Mealey's (February 12, 2019, 1:53 PM EST) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — A divided Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 11 denied a petition for rehearing en banc and a petition for panel rehearing, leaving in place a Nov. 13 ruling by a divided panel holding that an employer’s revocation of a conditional job offer following the applicant’s request for religious accommodation was a matter to be resolved under a disparate treatment claim and not a retaliation one (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. North Memorial Health Care, No. 17-2926, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 4112)....