Silverstein v. Hobbyland Marine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that hospital “is not a state actor and is not bound by the Free Exercise Clause” in employees’ suit to stop application of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy
• finding that loss of income and loss of benefits were “external factors common to most discharged employees.”
• explaining that “where the claimed disability is not a contraindication for the vaccine, the requested accommodation does not sufficiently relate to the claimed disability.”
• denying 20 injunctive relief after determining that unvaccinated healthcare workers materially 1 increased the risk of spreading COVID-19
• finding, at the preliminary injunction stage, a hospital’s reasonable likelihood of success in showing undue hardship based on the mission of caring for a medically vulnerable population and the relative limits of testing compared to vaccination
• “[T]he issue is whether granting 2 employees an accommodation from the COVID-19 vaccine would impose an undue hardship; the 3 vaccination status of defendant’s patients or visitors is not material.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).