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Federal judge issues injunction over military COVID vaccine mandate

January 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Denver Newsroom, Jan 4, 2022 / 16:05 pm (CNA).
A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration and the Department of Defense over their apparent refusal to grant several Christ… […]

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COVID vaccine mandate an “attempted ideological purge” of Christian Navy SEALs, lawyer says

November 10, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 8

Twenty-six United States Navy SEALs and nine other Navy special forces members say the Navy’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy violates constitutionally protected religious liberty and has led to threats, coercion and retaliation against the service […]

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18 plaintiffs sue University of Colorado over vaccine mandates

November 8, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 1

The University of Colorado School of Medicine and the affiliated Anschutz Medical Campus engaged in “explicit religious discrimination” by denying COVID vaccine exemptions to 18 students, staff and faculty who filed objections to the vaccines’ […]

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CO medical school allegedly conducts illegal ‘inquisition’, rejects religious exemptions to COVID shots

October 5, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 25

A devout Catholic doctor and a Buddhist first-year medical student were subjected to an “outrageous,” unconstitutional inquisition by the University of Colorado School of Medicine when they filed for exemptions to a COVID-19 shot mandate, […]

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Catholic hospital system illegally refusing COVID shot exemptions, lawyers allege

October 1, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 10

More than a dozen workers at a Missouri-based health-care system have been illegally subjected to repeated interrogation about their religious beliefs, threats from supervisors and for some, firing for refusing to take a COVID-19 gene-serum […]

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War of words over New York’s compulsory COVID vaccines

September 28, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 8

The war over compulsory COVID-19 shots for health care workers spilled from the federal courtroom onto the streets of the Bronx as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated her intention to replace health care workers […]

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Spate of lawsuits nationwide fight against compulsory COVID-19 vaccines

September 22, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 24

An explosion of litigation seeking to strike down COVID-19 shot mandates is a reaction to increasing animus toward Christians whose objections are  based on constitutionally protected religious beliefs — with key cases winding their way […]

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