6th Circuit Affirms Vaccine Class Injunction In Air Force Members’ Suit

Mealey's (November 30, 2022, 12:11 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 29 affirmed class certification and the grant of a classwide injunction in a lawsuit by members of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons, finding that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), “the Air Force wrongly relied on its ‘broadly formulated’ reasons for the vaccine mandate to deny specific exemptions to the Plaintiffs” and that common questions exist for the class....