The U.S. Supreme Court likely won’t decide until January whether to halt the Biden administration’s Covid-19 shot-or-test rule for large employers, leaving companies in limbo as they prepare to comply with the measure amid the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant.
The high court asked the government to respond by Dec. 30 to emergency stay requests from states with Republican attorneys general, businesses groups, conservative advocacy organizations, employers, and other opponents of the regulation.
At least eight separate petitions—addressed to Justice Brett Kavanaugh—rolled in after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit allowed ...