A federal jury has sided with fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency claiming they lost their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate. There are six of them total in the lawsuit and each will receive more than $1 million.

Norton Rose Fulbright was sued in February 2024 by a former IT support analyst Joshua Boudreaux, who was fired October 2021 for “refusing” to comply with the firm’s vaccine mandate policy, which required employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

A federal jury has ruled in favor of six fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency for losing their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate.

On Wednesday, a jury in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California sided with the employees who refused the vaccine for religious reasons. BART has been ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with the individual employees receiving between nearly $1.2 million and $1.5 million each.

MetroHealth System defeated allegations Friday that it discriminated against a former employee when it rejected his request for a religious exemption from its Covid-19 vaccine requirement, according to a Friday federal court opinion.

A federal jury will decide if BART has to pay up to six former employees who claimed religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate but say they were not accommodated and subsequently lost their jobs.