TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 4, 2022

Tennessee is joining 15 other states in a renewed challenge of the federal government’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, Mainstreet Nashville reports. The group of states – which represent locations where an injunction against the mandate is not in effect – filed suit in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Participating states included Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. In December, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a nationwide injunction blocking the mandate, limiting it to just the states in its circuit. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the mandate for health care workers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it would start enforcing the requirement in states not impacted by an injunction.