The US Navy can no longer separate service members who are unvaccinated and have sought a religious exemption from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Monday
A group of Navy SEALs brought the original suit against the US government last fall after the US military implemented a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The group of SEALs asked that they not be reprimanded or denied deployments because they had requested a religious exemption to not be inoculated against the coronavirus, and it had not been granted yet.
In O'Connor's filing granting the class action, he issued an order in line with that Supreme Court move and said that the Navy could still take into account the service members' vaccination status in deployment decisions. Read MoreWhile the Navy can no longer separate service members for requesting a religious exemption to remain unvaccinated, the Navy is not required to deploy unvaccinated service members, per the Supreme Court's ruling.
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