Federal Worker Covid Vaccine Challenge to Be Reheard by 5th Cir.

More than 60 federal workers will get a fresh chance to prevent the Biden administration from enforcing its Covid-19 vaccination requirement against them, a New Orleans-based federal appeals court said Monday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted their petition to rehear the case by the full court. By doing so, the court vacated a divided Feb. 9 ruling by a three-judge panel that lifted an injunction blocking enforcement of the vaccination requirement for federal employees while the lawsuit played out.

The appeals panel ruled 2-1 that the workers and other parties contesting the rule needed to ...