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New Cases

Court Vaccinates Hospital Against Religious and Age Discrimination Lawsuit

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin granted a defendant hospital’s motion for summary judgment on a plaintiff surgeon’s religious discrimination and age discrimination claims, based on the hospital’s implementation of a mandatory Covid‑19 vaccination policy. Romzek v. Baldwin Area Med. Ctr.

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Question of the Week

We have a patient scheduled for surgery who is deaf and we want to make sure that we are providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. With that said, do we have to hire an in-person sign language interpreter, or can we rely upon video remote interpreting services to communicate with the patient?

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