TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 19, 2022

President Joe Biden was blocked from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for government-contractor workers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Indiana after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that he overstepped his authority. The government had sought to vacate a lower court’s order blocking the mandate but the judge authoring the majority opinion said, “To allow this mandate to remain in place would be to ratify an ‘enormous and transformative expansion in’ the President’s power under the Procurement Act.” A similar case that would impact workers in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee is still pending before the Sixth Circuit. Bloomberg Law has more on the pending litigation.