TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 17, 2021

Lawsuits filed around the country challenging the Biden administration's workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule will be consolidated and heard by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, National Public Radio reports. That decision was the result of a random lottery conducted by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. More than 30 cases have been filed against the rule in all 12 circuit courts of appeal. It will now be up to the 6th Circuit to decide whether to lift a stay issued by the 5th Circuit. A three-judge panel of the court temporarily blocked the rule a day after it took effect, saying it posed "grave statutory and constitutional” issues. The court reaffirmed that decision last Friday calling the rule "fatally flawed." The Biden administration maintains it has emergency authority to protect workers facing "grave danger" on the job.