In a rare decision involving an immunity claim by government officials, a Massachusetts judge has denied a college’s human resources director’s request for immunity from a lawsuit seeking monetary damages against her for denying a professor’s religious exemption request from the jab.
In denying the college official’s request, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Edward McDonough slammed Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) Acting HR Director Vannoch Sin for what he called a “thinly masked opposition, [if] not overt hostility,” toward Associate Professor Sheryl Fullen in her opposition to the COVID vaccine on religious grounds.
“Sin’s misconduct, as alleged in Fullen’s complaint, egregiously violated Fullen’s right to free exercise of religion not because Sin considered whether Fullen’s religious relief not because Sin considered whether Fullen’s religious belief conflicted with being vaccinated, but because Sin not seriously and candidly consider her beliefs, but instead wrongfully rejected Fullen’s accommodation request based either on Sin’s opposition to, hostility toward, or factually unsupported quarrel over Fullen’s sincerely held beliefs,” McDonough wrote….