Disney Wins Rockmond Dunbar Covid Vaccine Firing Trial; Jury Rejects Ex-‘9-1-1’ Star Claim Of Religious  Exemption

An L.A. jury today unanimously rejected former 9-1-1 star Rockmond Dunbar‘s insistence that Disney-owned 20th Television fired him from the hit Ryan Murphy series because of refusing to get the Covid-19 jab over religious convictions.

The verdict came down Friday afternoon after a nearly three-day trial in federal court in DTLA.

Disney did not respond to request from Deadline for comment on the verdict in their favor in the four-year old case.

Dunbar, who played Michael, the ex-husband of Angela Bassett’s character, on the now shuttered Fox drama series from its launch, was suddenly was written off 9-1-1 in late 2021. The pink slipping occurred came after the actor had requested a medical exemption and later a religious exemption from the Covid protocols on the show and at Disney that require all actors to be vaccinated.

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