The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has rolled back a nationwide injunction issued last year by a federal trial court in Georgia that prevented the Biden Administration from implementing the President’s controversial Executive Order (E.O.) requiring federal contractors to ensure employees were vaccinated against COVID-19.
Finding that the trial court went too far in issuing a nationwide injunction, the appeals court in its August 22 ruling narrowed the injunction to limit it to the parties to the lawsuit. At the same time, however, the court observed that the plaintiffs are ultimately likely to succeed in their claims that the E.O. is unlawful. This factor, along with several others, not the least of which is that we are now in a very different stage of the pandemic, makes it unlikely in our view that the Administration will attempt to resume enforcement anytime soon, if ever.
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