The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ordered that the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers resume in about half the country while an appeal moves forward.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the administration’s request for a stay on a preliminary injunction as it applies to the 14 states that brought the lawsuit challenging the mandate. But the appeals court granted a stay on the injunction in the rest of the states that it applied to.
A federal court in Louisiana had halted the health agency from enforcing the vaccine mandate Nov. 30 nationwide, except for ...