Biden Allowed to Impose Vaccine Mandate for Some Contractors

The Biden administration won a partial victory after a federal appeals court in Atlanta narrowed a nationwide injunction blocking a mandate that federal contractors’ employees be vaccinated against Covid-19.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday agreed with a lower court that the mandate, which applied to roughly a quarter of the US workforce and affected companies that do business with the federal government, is too broad and the administration overreached its statutory authority.

But the appeals court held that the injunction against the mandate also was too broad, and only should apply to procurement contracts ...