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Centrus Vaccine Civil Rights Case

Re: the Legality of forcing employees to take an experimental medical procedure as a condition to work

 

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Facts of the Case

  • Files: Nov 17, 2021 (2)
  • Location:
  • Court: US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division
  • Case #: 2:21-cv-05336
  • Plaintiffs: Danny Shortridge, Craig Moore, Brenda Patton, Doug McLaughlin, Gary Entler, Dockie Tackett & Christine Buttermore
  • Plaintiff Attorneys: Thomas W Connors & Warner Mendenhall
  • Defendants: Centrus Energy Corp, Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, LLC, Mid-American Conversion Services, LLC, and Portsmouth Mission Alliance, LLC
  • Trial Type:
  • Presiding Judge: Algenon Marbley [2]
  • Referring Judge: Elizabeth Preston Deavers [3]
  • Status: Pending
  • Verdict: TBD

* The information for this case was provided by the Plaintiffs Attorneys

Background

On 11/17/2021 Shortridge filed a Civil Right – Employment Discrimination lawsuit against Centrus Energy Corp. This case was filed in U.S. District Courts, Ohio Southern District. The Judges overseeing this case are Algenon L. Marbley and Elizabeth Preston Deavers.  [3]

The federal government offered Defendants cash payments in exchange for enforcing vaccine mandates and achieving a rate of 90% of vaccination among its workers.

 

Significance

This case challenges the Biden Administration’s attempt to pay off companies in order to coerce their employees to undergo a medical treatment that violate their Constitutional and civil rights.

 

Plaintiff’s Argument

442 Civil Rights – Employment [2]

The Defendants’ vaccine mandates are subject to First Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993. Defendants violated Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide employees required medical or religious accommodation and instead Defendants threatened to terminate Plaintiffs if they did not get vaccinated. Defendants have violated the US Constitution by forcing the Plaints to choose to either take the vaccination at the expense of their religious beliefs or health, or losing their jobs. [1]

Biden’s Executive Order authorized a Task Force to update vaccine mandate guidance on a continuing basis. The Task Force Guidance requires federal contractors and subcontractors to mandate “COVID-19 vaccination of covered contractor employees, except in limited circumstances. where an employee is legally entitled to an accommodation….[C]overed contractor employees are  to be “fully vaccinated” by January 18, 2022

 

Defendant’s Argument

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Relevant Prior Judgements/ Cases

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Decision

Pending

 

Aftermath

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References

[1]  VERIFIED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, AND DECLARATORY RELIEF

[2] pacermonitor case 42674314

[3] unicourt: Shortridge, et al. v. Centrus Energy Corp, et al.

 

Keyword

USA, Shortridge, Centrus Energy Corp, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, U.S. District Courts, Ohio, Southern District, First Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Task Force, Biden, Executive Order, Mendenhall, Connors 

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