Federal Appeals Court Keeps Block on Biden’s “Staggeringly Overbroad” COVID-19 Vaccine-or-Testing Rule for Large Companies

November 13th, 2021

Awake Goy

November 13th, 2021

A federal appeals court Friday called a Biden administration rule requiring large companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees “staggeringly overbroad” and ordered that its implementation remain blocked in a divisive case likely bound for the Supreme Court.

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A three-judge panel called the rule “fatally flawed” and said it “grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority.” The court said that “however tragic and devastating” COVID-19 has been, it isn’t clear that the pandemic “poses the kind of grave danger” contemplated in the statute authorizing the federal agency to regulate workplace safety.