The University of Colorado's Anschutz School of Medicine must pay more than $10.3 million to 18 plaintiffs it attempted to force into taking COVID-19 shots despite religious objections. Although the school claimed it would grant religious accommodation, in practice, it denied religious exemptions unless the religion 'teaches (them) and all other adherents that immunizations are forbidden under all circumstances.' In May 2024, a three-judge panel of the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked the school for denying the accommodations. 

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AURORA, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) — The University of Colorado's Anschutz School of Medicine must pay more than $10.3 million to 18 plaintiffs it attempted to force into taking COVID-19 shots despite religious objections, in a settlement announced by the religious liberty law firm the Thomas More Society.

As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, in April 2021, the University of Colorado (UC) announced its requirement that all staff and students receive COVID jabs, leaving specific policy details to individual campuses. On September 1, 2021, it enforced an updated policy stating that "religious exemption may be submitted based on a person's religious belief whose teachings are opposed to all immunizations," but required not only a written explanation why one's "sincerely held religious belief, practice of observance prevents them" from taking the jabs, but also whether they "had an influenza or other vaccine in the past."