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(Children’s Health Defense) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday unanimously upheld an injunction prohibiting the U.S. Air Force from punishing or terminating service members with religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Air Force had “wrongly relied on its ‘broadly formulated’ reasons” for denying the requests of over 10,000 unvaccinated Air Force members who submitted a religious exemption to the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Civil rights attorney Aaron Siri, legal counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network and one of the lawyers involved in the case, on November 29 tweeted:
Pleased to announce the 6th Circuit just released its decision upholding our previous court wins concerning the Air Force’s denial of religious exemptions, including upholding a class-wide injunction protecting over 10K Air Force Members @ChrisWiest11 https://t.co/lCbqIr0Chr
— Aaron Siri (@AaronSiriSG) November 29, 2022
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According to a press release by the plaintiffs’ legal counsel, the court held that “[t]he Plaintiffs have
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