TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Jan 6, 2022

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Kentucky district court ruling that the president does not have the legal authority to use procurement law to mandate vaccines for the contractor workforce, the Federal News Network reports. A three-judge panel on Wednesday voted 2-1 to uphold the lower court's ruling. In that November decision, Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove found the 1949 Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, a law that gives the president the power to promote “economy and efficiency” in federal contracting, couldn’t be used to justify a vaccine requirement. That decision blocked the mandate in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. Read the appeals court's decision.