In a first and only jury verdict in a COVID vaccine exemption case, a jury found that Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) denied employees any accommodations after they submitted religious exemptions to COVID vaccination. BART also failed to show undue hardship to justify not providing those accommodations.
The 100% vaccinated jury found that BART caused them emotional distress, awarding six plaintiffs more than $1 million each. Prima facie, this looks like a religious exemptions case, but the case was actually argued using Title 7.
“This case shows what juries really think about these issues,” said litigator Jessica Barsotti, “Courts have been nervous about jury trials in COVID shot exemption cases, such as our masking case against Yorba Linda School District where we were headed to a jury trial, then the judge did a sudden about-face and threw out the case.” Jessica went on to say that she “loves jury trials because juries always get it right.”
Join us Thursday evening for a live Zoom call with BART case litigator & Free Now Board Member Jessica Barsotti, Case Consultant and new Free Now Foundation Executive Director, Clint Griess, and hear directly from some of the plaintiffs, in their own words.
Plaintiffs will share their stories of fortitude, faith and selflessness for standing up for what it right.
In 1996, Ms. Mayer was running a worldwide research group for Apple Inc., when she got 6 vaccines for a vacation and became disabled, brain damaged and lost her career. Now substantially recovered, she is Chairman and co-founder of Free Now Foundation, one of the leading medical freedom law non-profits in California. A retired workaholic, Ms. Mayer volunteers 60 hours a week to help run Free Now Foundation.
Ms. Mayer is an in-demand speaker, and her lively presentations on 1/ The Legal Howdunnit of COVID, 2/ Digital Communism, and 3/ ABV: Anything But Vaccines have earned her recognition and accolades. "I know women in VP positions who do not hold a candle to this woman's sunlight," stated a commenter on a recent interview with Mike Adams, "She gives me hope that humanity still lives."
Ms. Mayer formerly served on the Children's Health Defense (CHD) board, co-founded & served as Chairman of CHD’s most successful Chapter in California, raising in excess of $5M, and served on RFK Jr’s Presidential campaign finance committee, raising hundreds of thousands for the campaign.
In 2022, she won the Golden Bear Award and a presentation she gave to Dr. Mercola was named a "Best of" interview. Ms. Mayer grew up in the Oscar Mayer family, and has degrees from Duke (BA) and Northwestern (MBA.)
We need a CA Constitutional amendment for medical freedom. The time is now, while people still have fresh memories of the Plandemic and before the next Plandemic promised by Bill Gates and Tony Fauci.
We love this idea, Mary!
I was Kaiser Permanente Nurse Practitioner who was fired with several of my colleagues for declining to take the Covid19 injection due to our religious beliefs. Our situation appears to be exactly the same as this case. Unfortunately I was unable to join the live Zoom discussion due to technical issues.
I have reached out to the Free Now Foundation for legal assistance in this matter in the past and was advised that no cases were being prosecuted at this time.
Since the Bart litigants were successful, it would appear that now there is a legal precedent for our case.
What is the next step in this process.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Carol Britton
Hi Carol, I’m so sorry to hear you lost your job due to vaccine refusal. And that you had tech issues for the Zoom. I believe the video will be ready to go out this week so you can watch it.
I am not an attorney, but I know there is a statute of limitations. Please write me at: and we can connect you with some attorneys who can let you know if you can start a case now. These recent wins are very encouraging.
Totally agree Mary!! At the federal level as well!