vaccination
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Federal judge sides with Colorado Symphony in violinist’s religious discrimination lawsuit
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A federal judge last week found the Colorado Symphony Association had not discriminated against a violinist on the basis of her religion by placing her on leave when she did not receive a COVID-19 vaccination. Larisa Fesmire has been a violinist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 1998. She described herself as a “Bible based…
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Appeals court dismisses state contractor’s defamation suit against Denver7
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed earlier this month that a former vaccine distribution contractor for the state failed to show Denver7 should be liable for defamation through its series of stories about the company’s problems. Between 2021 and 2022, Denver7 published four articles describing employees of Jogan Health, LLC not receiving payments, false statements in Jogan…
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Denver magistrate may resolve dispute between parents over whether to vaccinate child against COVID-19, appeals court says
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week clarified that trial judges need not find a child is endangered before they break an impasse between two parents who cannot agree about which course of action is best. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed a Denver magistrate appropriately sided with a father who wanted his child…
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Federal judge declines to intervene as anti-vax CU doctor’s contract expires
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A federal judge has declined to block the University of Colorado’s medical campus from terminating a faculty member after she refused for nearly two years to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. “Dr. Jane Doe 3,” a rheumatologist at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, filed a motion on May 30 alleging she was two days away from…
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Children under 5 may be eligible for vaccines by President’s Day, Colorado official says
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Federal regulators are preparing to meet next week to discuss approving Pfizer’s vaccine for children as young as 6 months old, and a top Colorado health official said Thursday that doses could begin being distributed here within the next two weeks. The only Americans not approved to receive vaccines are those under the age of…
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Omicron infections now below delta wave, need for additional doses of vaccine ‘likely’
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There are fewer Coloradans hospitalized with COVID-19 now than at any point since early October as the omicron wave continues to rapidly subside, a decline that state officials hope will shepherd in months of pandemic calm. COVID-19 infections, which just 30 days ago were more than twice as high as they’d ever been, are now below…
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Federal judge tosses contractors’ challenge to Denver vaccine mandate
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A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to Denver’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for contractors providing services to the city, healthcare facilities and schools. Denver argued that the lawsuit should not proceed because the half-dozen construction trade associations who claimed the city’s order was unenforceable and unconstitutional had not demonstrated the city’s public health orders…
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Judge tosses lawsuit over military vaccination mandate
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A federal judge in Colorado threw out a lawsuit from two service members seeking to halt the “forcible inoculation” of military employees and prevent the U.S. Department of Defense from requiring vaccinations for people who already contracted COVID-19. U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore found that the plaintiffs had reportedly received or were being…
