The attorneys who successfully represented employees challenging St. Louis schools’ Covid-19 vaccine policy on religious grounds won a $1.3 million payday.
The amount requested by the two lawyers and two paralegals who worked on the case was reasonable, Chief Judge Stephen R. Clark said Tuesday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Forty-three school employees initially sued the St. Louis Board of Education under the US Constitution, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Missouri civil rights law after it denied them a religious exemption from getting the vaccine and fired or suspended ...