{"id":155837,"date":"2026-07-05T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/05\/in-klimek-v-centracare-health-system-eighth-circuit-reverses-grant-of-summary-judgment-for-employer-and-sets-groundwork-for-more-employee-ada-claims-based-on-vaccine-refusal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:33:59","slug":"in-klimek-v-centracare-health-system-eighth-circuit-reverses-grant-of-summary-judgment-for-employer-and-sets-groundwork-for-more-employee-ada-claims-based-on-vaccine-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/05\/in-klimek-v-centracare-health-system-eighth-circuit-reverses-grant-of-summary-judgment-for-employer-and-sets-groundwork-for-more-employee-ada-claims-based-on-vaccine-refusal\/","title":{"rendered":"In ‘Klimek v. CentraCare Health System,’ Eighth Circuit Reverses Grant of Summary Judgment for Employer and Sets Groundwork for More Employee ADA Claims Based on Vaccine Refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its recent opinion in Klimek v. CentraCare Health System<\/i>, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has arguably cleared a path for employees to challenge actions taken under generally applicable vaccine mandates as discriminatory under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).\"\"<\/p>\n

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In its recent opinion in Klimek v. CentraCare Health System, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has arguably cleared a path for employees to challenge actions taken under generally applicable vaccine mandates as discriminatory under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In ‘Klimek v. CentraCare Health System,’ Eighth Circuit Reverses Grant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-ubGXbv.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}