June 14, 2022
A Texas federal judge correctly dismissed a lawsuit alleging health care workers were wrongly fired from a Houston hospital for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, a Fifth Circuit panel has ruled, noting the workers described the dispute as a state law issue at oral arguments earlier this month.
June 06, 2022
A group of Texas health care workers urged a Fifth Circuit panel on Monday to send to the Texas Supreme Court a lawsuit alleging they were wrongly fired from a Houston hospital for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming the case could establish a new exemption to the state's at-will employment policy.
March 04, 2022
Texas health care workers told the Fifth Circuit on Friday that an order from the state's governor trumps a hospital's authority to make them get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the hospital was wrong to argue the order didn't apply to their case.
November 17, 2021
A group of Texas health care workers has asked the Fifth Circuit to resurrect its lawsuit challenging a Houston hospital's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing a district court's dismissal of its claims goes against the Lone Star State's strong public policy against firing employees for refusing vaccines.
June 14, 2021
By confirming the legality of a Houston hospital's requirement that workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, a federal judge may have given reluctant employers the nudge they need to put vaccination mandates of their own in place. Here are five takeaways from Saturday's decision.