Fifth Circuit Blocks Biden’s Contractor Vaccine Mandate (2)

President Joe Biden was blocked from enforcing his Covid-19 vaccine mandate for government-contractor workers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Indiana after a split federal appeals court in New Orleans found that he overstepped his authority, adding to a string of court losses for the administration.

The government unsuccessfully sought to vacate a Louisiana lower court’s December 2021 order blocking the mandate for companies that do business with the federal government. “To allow this mandate to remain in place would be to ratify an ‘enormous and transformative expansion in’ the President’s power under the Procurement Act,” said Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt of ...