Christian Worker Avoids Arbitrating Pronoun Case in 6th Cir. Win

Federal appeals court judges in Ohio overturned a trial judge’s order allowing a Michigan hospital and five executives to arbitrate religious bias and constitutional claims by a Christian former physician assistant who refused to comply with a pronoun policy for patients.

The University of Michigan Health-West and the other defendants waived their right to enforce the arbitration provision in Valerie Kloosterman’s employment contract because they litigated the case for over a year and asked a district court to address the merits of her claims before invoking it, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

“A party ...