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In an unpublished but nonetheless significant opinion, the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a consolidated lawsuit filed by SAG-AFTRA members against their union, finding the claims time-barred...more
California health care employers that apply mandatory vaccination policies objectively can take great comfort in a recent California Court of Appeal decision. In Hodges v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the court found...more
On April 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a permanent injunction that had enjoined President Biden’s “Contractor Vaccine Mandate,” taking an expansive view of presidential authority under the...more
Although not receiving much media attention, in October 2022, the nationwide injunction on Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (the “EO”) was lifted. The injunction,...more
On October 18, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals entered as its judgment its August 26, 2022 opinion limiting the scope of a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal...more
With apologies to Jaws II, just when you thought it was safe, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has released a shark back into the EO 14042 waters. On Friday, August 26, the 11th Circuit published a 66-page...more
Lately, litigation news related to public and private workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandates has quieted. That changed last Friday, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed a nationwide injunction against the...more
Oral Argument Scheduled for April 8 on Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Injunction - Oral argument on the United States’ appeal of the nationwide injunction against President Biden’s federal contractor vaccine mandate is...more
Implementation of the federal contractor vaccine mandate remains subject to a nationwide injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The federal government has appealed this injunction...more
A federal district court judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking implementation of the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal employees. The judge relied on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent...more
Last week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Biden administration’s motion to stay a lower court’s injunction against a COVID-19 vaccination mandate applicable to employees of federal contractors and...more
While the Supreme Court declined to stay the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Agency’s vaccine mandate for employers with 100+ employees or to change the status of the rule issued by the Centers for...more
Following the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel handing down a split decision reinstating the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) vaccination mandate, numerous emergency applications were filed with...more
On Dec. 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for employers with 100 or more...more
On December 17, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the nationwide stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that...more
On Friday, December 17, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit breathed new life into the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees. The 6th Circuit’s...more
On December 17, 2021, a three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (with one judge dissenting) lifted the nationwide temporary stay of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency...more
Just before 7 p.m. on Friday, December 17, 2021, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit dissolved the Stay issued by the Fifth Circuit, which prevented the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) from enforcing...more
On December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an Opinion lifting the stay of OSHA's emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to implement mandatory...more
Late this past Friday, December 17, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order dissolving the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' stay that had blocked implementation of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved an order staying enforcement of the emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The ETS requires all...more
On Friday, December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals lifted the stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine mandate (the “OSHA Rule”). The OSHA Rule requires businesses with 100 or...more
In one of the more shocking developments in a year full of surprises, a federal appeals court breathed new life into the Biden administration’s mandate-or-test emergency vaccine rule with a stunning Friday afternoon decision....more
Development: On Friday, December 17, 2021, a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the stay that had been placed on the OSHA “Emergency Temporary Standard” (ETS) for larger private employers regarding...more
President Biden’s vaccine mandates have faced a roller-coaster ride in the federal court system over the last few weeks, leaving covered employers in the difficult position of trying to comply with on-again, off-again federal...more