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In a continuing trend of court orders halting the Biden administration’s broad plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccines, the latest blow comes in the form of a nationwide block to stop enforcement of vaccine mandates against certain federal contractors and subcontractors. Last week, a Kentucky federal district court issued a preliminary […]

This week has brought several blows to the Biden administration’s broad plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare institutions and now, federal contractors in certain states.  Specifically with regard to federal contractors, on November 30, 2021, a Kentucky federal district court issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration from […]

The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care staff has hit yet another stumbling block.  On November 30, 2021, a Louisiana federal court issued a preliminary injunction nationwide to halt the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule (IFR), which required COVID-19 vaccination for covered health care staff by […]

On November 29, 2021, a federal court in Missouri issued a preliminary injunction to halt the Biden administration’s enforcement of a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 states.  The mandate was recently released on November 4, 2021 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) as an Interim […]

On November 10, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (“Task Force”) updated its Guidance document  and FAQ site to extend the deadline by which covered contractor employees must be fully vaccinated.  The original Guidance required covered contract employees to be fully vaccinated by December 8, 2021.  That date was recently […]