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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) will pay $1.8 million in attorney’s fees to a Florida law firm that represented thousands of service members who were punished, demoted or discharged after their requests for religious exemptions from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate were denied.
Liberty Counsel, a religious freedom legal advocacy group, announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday.
The agreement came after two years of litigation in two class action suits — Navy SEAL 1 et al. v. Austin and Colonel Financial Management Officer et al. v. Austin — challenging the military’s refusal to grant religious exemptions…
