A federal judge sided with a former Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania employee who was fired after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, ruling the alleged facts are sufficient to establish each element of religious discrimination under Title VII.

Judge Joel Harvey Slomsky of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sustained plaintiff Donald Glover’s suit against CHOP, finding his religious beliefs that he claimed kept him from getting vaccinated were sincerely held and sufficiently pleaded, in a Jan. 25 opinion.