US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr denied a request Thursday to block the current federal mask mandate for US airports and domestic air travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Seklecki filed the lawsuit in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for himself and his son, who is autistic. [...]
Judge Terry Douglas of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Tuesday blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US health care workers. This nationwide injunction halts the mandate, pending a full judicial review of the mandate’s legality. The court found that the government would not be able defend the order, considering [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday rejected a request to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate being implemented by Mass General Brigham, a large Massachusetts hospital system. The employees of Mass General Brigham made the request last week following the hospital’s refusal to grant employees individual exemptions, both religious and medical, to the hospital system’s COVID-19 vaccine [...]
A federal district court in Missouri Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule on November 5 revising the requirements Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers have to meet in order to continue to [...]
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced in a press conference Friday that COVID-19 vaccination will become mandatory for everyone beginning February 1, 2022. As the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hits Western Europe, Austria is the first country to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory. Austria is one of the top four countries to have the highest [...]
Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The mandate requires all healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022. The group of [...]
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld its November 6 decision to temporarily stop the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for private businesses. The mandate, known as the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Vaccination and Testing was published last Saturday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The ETS challenge was filed by [...]
The North Dakota House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill that would ban state-level government-ordered COVID vaccine mandates. The bill would not apply to jails, state hospitals, or higher education institutions but to all other state entities. The bill would prohibit those entities from requiring proof of vaccination, proof of the presence of COVID antibodies, [...]
The Singapore Court of Appeal stayed the execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national who was convicted of illegally importing 42.72 grams of diamorphine in 2009, on Tuesday. The stay came in the light of Nagaenthran testing positive for COVID-19 a day before his execution was due in a case that has attracted international attention. [...]
The Biden administration asserted Monday that it can lawfully require employers to mandate employee vaccination or offer employees the option to mask and test. The administration reasoned that, amid an “extraordinary pandemic and a serious threat to employees,” the federal government can “address the grave dangers posed by COVID-19 in the workplace.” Late last week, [...]
