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Class Action Decisions Published June 2025

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 8/15/2025

The full text of each summary can be found below through the Table of Contents links. Highlights from this issue include: Uninjured Class Members. The Supreme Court had originally granted a writ to decide whether federal...more

Federal Contractors in Limbo After Vaccine Mandate Nationwide Injunction Is Narrowed

Perkins Coie on 9/1/2022

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit panel breathed new life into the federal contractor vaccine mandate. While the panel determined that the COVID-19 vaccine mandate exceeded the president’s legal authority, it...more

11th Circuit Refuses to Stay Federal Contractor Vaccine Injunction During Appeal

FordHarrison on 12/24/2021

On December 17, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit refused to stay a nationwide injunction blocking the federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate from going into effect, pending appeal. By way of background, on Tuesday, December...more

Yet Another Court Upholds Workplace Vaccine Mandate: What Your Organization Can Take From New York City Schools Litigation

Fisher Phillips on 12/22/2021

Challenges to employer-instituted vaccine mandates have become ubiquitous across the country this year, as some employees claim they should not have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to keep their jobs. Also nearly...more

District Courts Block Nationwide Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors

UB Greensfelder LLP on 12/21/2021

Due to the ongoing pandemic, federal contractors nationwide – and the attorneys who represent them – have been closely monitoring the government’s implementation of a vaccine mandate. The potential of an enforceable mandate...more

Executive Order 14042 - Update 12.0 U.S. District Court Issues Nationwide Injunction

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/9/2021

Federal contractors and subcontractors across the country were forced to rethink their COVID-safety efforts when, on December 7, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia enjoined enforcement of Executive...more

Nationwide Injunction Against Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate ‎

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 12/8/2021

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, in The State of Georgia, et. al. v. Biden, et. al., Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a...more

COVID-19 Developments for Federal Contractors…

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/8/2021

[Editor's Note (12/07/21): A second court―the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia―has issued an injunction halting enforcement of the federal contractor vaccine mandate on a nationwide basis. The district...more

Georgia District Court Enjoins Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 12/8/2021

On December 6, we noted on this blog post that because the injunction issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on November 30 prohibiting the government from enforcing the government contractor...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked Nationwide

Butler Snow LLP on 12/8/2021

A federal judge in Georgia issued a nationwide injunction blocking Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The case is Georgia v. Biden, S.D. Ga., No. 21-cv-00163, 12/7/21. The mandate was set to take effect on...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee

Butler Snow LLP on 12/2/2021

On November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an order granting a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors set forth in...more

Federal Courts Freeze Federal Contractor and CMS Vaccine Mandates

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC on 12/2/2021

Preliminary injunction blocks vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors - On November 30, 2021, The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction preventing the...more

Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked In 3 States By Federal Judge

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 12/1/2021

On November 30, 2021, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the federal contractor and subcontractor vaccine mandate requirements issued by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force in response...more

Sixth Circuit Wins ETS Lottery and OSHA Suspends ETS-Related Activities

Snell & Wilmer on 11/18/2021

Yesterday, November 16, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the “Panel”) held a lottery to select the federal appeals court to address the 34 petitions seeking review of the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing...more

UPDATE: Sixth Circuit Will Hear Legal Challenges to OSHA’s Mandatory Vaccination and Testing Standard

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 11/18/2021

On November 5, 2021, OSHA published its Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”), requiring private employers with 100 or more employees to establish, implement, and enforce a written mandatory vaccination or testing policy. ...more

Alabama Enacts Legislation That Restricts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Butler Snow LLP on 11/18/2021

Alabama has joined an ever-increasing number of states that have passed laws aimed at countering the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Alabama Senate Bill 9 restricts Alabama employers from requiring COVID-19...more

OSHA Suspends ETS Enforcement in Wake of Fifth Circuit’s Latest Jab at Vaccine Rule, But Future Remains Uncertain

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/16/2021

The saga of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) newly announced COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) continues. As you know, the ETS requires employers with 100 or more employees to mandate...more

The State Challenges to the Contractor Vaccine Mandate Continue

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/11/2021

The five cases challenging the contractor vaccine mandate filed in various district courts by 22 states, which we discussed on this blog last week, continue to develop. Motions for preliminary injunctions have now been filed...more

OSHA Issues “Vaccine or Test” Requirement for Large Employers Throughout the US

White & Case LLP on 11/9/2021

On November 4, 2021, the federal Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (the “ETS”). The ETS implements the additional measures to encourage...more

OSHA Issues Long-Awaited Emergency Standards to Implement Vaccine/Testing Mandate for Large Employers

Fenwick & West LLP on 11/9/2021

On November 4, 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its long-awaited emergency standards to implement President Biden’s Vaccine/Testing Mandate for businesses with 100 or more...more

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