Eighteen plaintiffs won a $10.3 million settlement this week, years after they sued over a vaccine mandate at the University of Colorado.

The settlement marks the end of a legal battle over pandemic-era policies. It came after a federal appeals court found that the university’s Anschutz campus in particular had violated the U.S. Constitution with its COVID-19 vaccine policy.

The policy had allowed members of certain religions to be exempted from the vaccine policy, but not others. It was “hostile toward and discriminatory against certain religions,” a federal appeals court wrote last year in a blistering 55-page ruling on the case.

Starting in April 2021, the university system set a requirement that employees and students get one of the new COVID-19 vaccines. Each campus was permitted t

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