5th Circuit Revives Suit Against Air Force’s Vaccination Policy

A group of US airmen and officers challenging the U.S. Air Force’s Covid-19 vaccination policies can move forward with their claims, despite the Air Force having lifted its vaccine mandate last year, a federal appellate court ruled.

Six Air Force appellants plausibly allege an “ongoing harm,” claiming that they remain subject to an allegedly unlawful accommodations process, said Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, sitting by designation for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Because the district court’s rescission “did not redress all of plaintiffs’ alleged harms,” the ...