Health Worker Vaccine Rule Case Poised to Go Back to Lower Court

The Fifth Circuit signaled it will vacate and send back a lower court decision to block the Biden administration’s health worker vaccine mandate across the country after the US Supreme Court allowed the rule to take effect.

“We’re going to remand, no question about that. On a preliminary injunction, you gotta send it back,” Judge Catharina Haynes said Monday during arguments in a case that tests the Medicare agency’s power to mandate health and safety conditions for health-care workers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Covid-19 vaccine mandate marked the first time the agency has forced workers to have ...