Why Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is ‘Tough’ to Challenge in Court

Conservative-led states challenging the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for companies that do business with the U.S. government likely will struggle to gain traction in court due to the history of attaching strings to federal contracts.

President Joe Biden‘s executive order gives employees of federal contractors until Jan. 4 to get the vaccine, unless they have a valid argument for an accommodation. The mandate, which applies to roughly a quarter of the U.S. workforce and affects companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, and General Motors Co., has spurred a series ...