Rite Aid Pharmacy was within its right to fire a pharmacist at its store in Utica who refused to give immunization shots to customers because he suffers from a fear of needles, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reverses a 2015 decision by Northern District Judge Thomas McAvoy that Rite Aid wrongfully terminated Christopher Stevens because of his condition and that the company retaliated against him.
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