Updated: A Los Angeles judge has postponed the trial on a lawsuit filed by two ex-General Hospital crew members who claim they were fired from the show after objecting to getting the Covid vaccine on religious grounds.
Superior Court Judge Tony Richardson delayed the trial date from May 13 to June 9 after an attorney for ABC, which airs the veteran daytime drama, said during a hearing Tuesday that both sides intend to try and resolve the case next month with the help of a retired Judge Mitchell Beckloff, who presided over the case previously.
Plaintiffs James Wahl and his son, Timothy James Wahl, were stage technicians who worked in close contact with unmasked actors. Both were fired in 2021. In their court papers, the men’s attorneys stated that ABC wrongly characterized the plaintiffs’ objections to vaccination “purely as lifestyle choices that it had no duty to accommodate.”
Read details of the case below.
Superior Court Judge Tony Richardson delayed the trial date from May 13 to June 9 after an attorney for ABC, which airs the veteran daytime drama, said during a hearing Tuesday that both sides intend to try and resolve the case next month with the help of a retired Judge Mitchell Beckloff, who presided over the case previously.
Plaintiffs James Wahl and his son, Timothy James Wahl, were stage technicians who worked in close contact with unmasked actors. Both were fired in 2021. In their court papers, the men’s attorneys stated that ABC wrongly characterized the plaintiffs’ objections to vaccination “purely as lifestyle choices that it had no duty to accommodate.”
Read details of the case below.
- 4/9/2025
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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