Dr. A v. Hochul

Issues: (1) Whether an administrative rule is generally applicable when it bans specific religiously motivated conduct inside a covered facility while expressly permitting otherwise identical secular conduct in the same facility at the same time; (2) whether an administrative rule mandating vaccination for health care workers is religiously neutral for purposes of the free exercise clause when it targets religion by removing a religious exemption while retaining a medical exemption, when the governor declared that the removal was intentional and that religious objectors to vaccination are “not doing what God wants,” and when the state enforces that view by punitively denying unemployment benefits to terminated religious objectors; and (3) whether a state administrative rule can forbid private employers from offering any religious accommodations under Title VII other than exclusion from the employer’s premises.