Federal appeals court keeps on hold Biden's COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing rule for large companies

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WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Friday called a Biden administration rule requiring large companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees "staggeringly overbroad" and ordered that its implementation remain blocked in a divisive case likely bound for the Supreme Court.

Businesses with 100 or more employees had been required under the rule to stand up vaccine or regular testing requirements by Jan. 4 or face penalties of nearly $14,000 per violation under an emergency Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule made public this month.

But the emergency regulation prompted more than two dozen lawsuits from conservative states and businesses questioning whether the federal agency responsible for ensuring workplace safety has the power to impose requirements for fighting a pandemic.

The New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked implementation of the regulation Friday after temporarily freezing it over the weekend. Among the plaintiffs: The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-appeals-court-keeps-on-hold-bidens-covid-19-vaccine-or-testing-rule-for-large-companies/ar-AAQE6cx

A RWNJ court lacking knowledge of precedent. The vaccine mandate issue was settled over a hundred years ago.

[FBaggins]

1. The precedent is not as you believe

The vaccine mandate issue was settled over a century ago for state mandates. The rationale for that decision (that states have police powers) does not apply to the federal government.