I couldn't resist reading the complaint. He's in state court, in Los Angeles County.
He's not alleging employment discrimination. I mean, he mentions it, but it's not his cause of action. Rather, he's making a single claim that the vaccine mandate is an invasion of his right to privacy under the California Constitution.
He's claiming that private entities operating in California can violate a constitutional right (I hadn't heard that before) and that ABC does not have a compelling interest in having the mandate because there are effective alternatives to a vaccine mandate. He claims the mandate is "irrational."
I don't know how Ingo will differentiate between a privacy right in being vaccinated from Covid and and a privacy right that children or their parents can claim so as not to be vaccinated for measles, etc., before going to school (California eliminated personal belief exemptions back in 2015). If Ingo were to, theoretically, win, public schools could no longer mandate any vaccine. If he's relying on "well, the Covid-19 vaccine is really, really sketchy (which he does kinda say in a horribly conspiratorial kind of way), but other vaccines are good," he ought to get laughed out of court.
He also claims to have been on GH for 25 years without acknowledging that's been and on-and-off kinda thing for a lot of that.
And he's asking for "at least $25,000" in damages due to the termination of his contract. Yikes, really, that's it? I would imagine he wants to stay under the $75,000 cap to stay out of federal court, but, buddy, really -- just $25,000? That's all your contract is worth?
Link to the lawsuit, which includes his religious exemption note as an attachment: https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ingo-Rademacher-lawsuit.pdf
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