Opponents of Health Worker Vaccine Mandate Aim for Right Court

The second and third challenges from Republican-led states to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers are strategic plays to maximize the chances that a federal appeals court blocks the rule, legal observers said.

Republican-led states are pushing back against President Joe Biden‘s sweeping vaccine mandates, with an Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccine-or-test rule for large employers being the main target. The Fifth Circuit blocked that rule, making the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ health-care worker rule the next priority.

The two lawsuits against the health-worker rule make similar claims to the first that ...