Court Blocks Contractor Vaccine Mandate in Three States, as Other Courts Begin To Weigh In

This week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ordered the federal government to stop implementation of the Biden Administration’s federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the states of Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. In two other contemporaneous rulings, federal trial courts also blocked implementation of the separate but related health care provider vaccine mandate from going into effect.

Given the number of legal challenges that have been filed against both mandates, we expect that these may be just the first of other court rulings that could be issued in the coming days. So far, the government is zero for three on the contractor and health care provider mandates. And, as we reported previously, the broader OSHA vaccine/test mandate applicable to all larger employers is currently enjoined from going into effect after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked it.

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