Faber et al v. ESPN Productions, Inc. et al

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Case Number:

3:23-cv-00041

Court:

Connecticut

Nature of Suit:

Civil Rights: Jobs

Judge:

Robert N. Chatigny

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  1. May 16, 2024

    ESPN Workers Drop Religious Bias Suit Over Vaccine Mandate

    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.

  2. October 26, 2023

    Disney Not A 'State Actor' In COVID Vax Dispute, Court Told

    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.

  3. May 30, 2023

    ESPN, Disney Move To Toss Religious Exemption Vaccine Suit

    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.

  4. April 13, 2023

    Meet The Attys Squaring Off In ESPN Vax Suit

    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.

  5. February 22, 2023

    ESPN Chief, Disney's Bob Iger Added To Vaccine Mandate Suit

    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.

  6. January 11, 2023

    ESPN, Disney Face Religious Bias Suit Over Vaccine Mandate

    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.