United’s Covid Vax Class Action Fight Divides Fifth Circuit (1)

A federal appeals court seemed to split over whether the religious sincerity of United Airlines Inc. workers challenging the company’s Covid-19 vaccination policy can be handled in class litigation.

An Obama-appointed judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit expressed doubt during oral argument Thursday that the workers could sue as a class. But two Trump appointees on the three-judge panel appeared open to upholding a Trump-appointed district judge’s order certifying the class and delaying individualized questions about workers’ faith until later in the case.

United is attempting to quash a class of approximately 1,000 workers placed ...