Texas Suit Over Shot-or-Test Rule Fails to Show Harm, U.S. Says

U.S. government officials told a federal appeals court that Texas’ challenge to OSHA’s shot-or-test requirement for employees at large businesses fails to prove harm to companies that outweighs the risk to the public health from the spread of Covid-19.

The response filed on Wednesday by the U.S. Labor and Justice departments with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes in response to the state’s lawsuit seeking to put on hold and then ultimately void the emergency regulation issued last week by the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration.

The New Orleans-based appeals court previously halted the vaccinate-or-test regulation ...