Vaccination-Religious Exemption

NATIONAL BASKETBALL REFEREES ASSOCIATION’S POST-HEARING REPLY BRIEF   INTRODUCTION For facility of reference, the NBRA replicates herein the lettered outline utilized by the NBA in the Argument section of its brief dated January 4, 2022. Because the arguments of the NBA had been largely anticipated at the time of the initial briefing, this submission will

NATIONAL BASKETBALL REFEREES ASSOCIATION’S POST-HEARING BRIEF In the summer of 2021, the National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA) negotiated a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the NBA providing for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination as condition of employment.  Consistent with every federal vaccination program issued to date, a core provision of the LOA was an exemption for individuals