Wed Dec 7, 2022 – 5:19 pm EST
CINCINNATI (LifeSiteNews) — In a significant victory for medical freedom, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a class-wide injunction on November 29 shielding thousands of U.S. Air Force personnel from the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 jab mandate due to its violation of their religious liberty rights.
The three-judge panel issued a 56-page ruling denying the Biden administration’s request to overturn the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland that barred the Department of Defense (DOD) from expelling or otherwise punishing thousands of troops who had applied for exemptions to the experimental COVID-19 gene-based injection mandate.
In Hunter Doster, et al. v. Hon Frank Kendall, et al., Judges Eric Murphy, John Bush and Raymond Kethledge affirmed McFarland’s July ruling, which also established class status for the injunction expanding its protections to at least 9,000 soldiers from the Air Force and Space Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, U.S. Air Force Academy and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. These are individuals who had requested a religious exemption to the vaccine since September 1, 2021, showed a sincere religious belief opposing the shot, and whose
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