Biden Contractor Vaccine Mandate Now With Four Appeals Courts

The Eighth Circuit will be the latest appeals court to hear a challenge to President Joe Biden‘s order that requires government-contractor workers to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit will join three other federal appeals court to consider a challenge to the measure. A coalition of states— Arkansas, Alaska, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming— filed one of several lawsuits that sought to block the mandate for companies that do business with the federal government.

U.S. Magistrate Judge David Noce of the Eastern District of Missouri ...