May 16, 2024
Two out of three former ESPN workers who sued the sports media company and its owner, The Walt Disney Co., claiming religious persecution after they were denied exemptions from their workplace's COVID-19 vaccination requirement have dropped their claims, according to a Thursday notice filed in Connecticut federal court.
October 26, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. should not have to face a federal lawsuit brought by three fired employees of its ESPN subsidiary who alleged that the companies discriminated against them by denying religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccination mandate because of multiple fatal flaws in the voluminous complaint, counsel for the defendants argued Thursday.
May 30, 2023
Three former ESPN employees claiming they were illegally fired after being denied religious exemptions from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy are trying to back up their case with a "conspiracy-laden narrative" of the government's supposed control over large, Fortune 50 companies in shaping public opinion about vaccination, argued ESPN, Disney and others in asking that the suit be thrown out.
April 13, 2023
Sports media network ESPN and its parent company Walt Disney Co. are embroiled in a Connecticut lawsuit from three former ESPN employees who claim they were illegally fired over the company's COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at the attorneys representing each side of the dispute.
February 22, 2023
ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro and Disney CEO Bob Iger have been added as defendants in a lawsuit by a former ESPN reporter and an ex-producer who claim they were illegally fired after being denied religious exemptions from the network's COVID-19 vaccine requirement, according to an amended complaint filed Wednesday.
January 11, 2023
A former ESPN reporter and an ex-producer said Wednesday that they were illegally fired after being denied religious exemptions from the network's COVID-19 vaccine requirement, arguing in Connecticut federal court that ESPN majority owner Disney's government ties made the mandate unconstitutional.