TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 8, 2021

Federal District Court Judge Stan Baker yesterday issued a nationwide stay on the president’s mandate for millions of federal contractors to get vaccinated against COVID-19, finding the order needs congressional approval to be valid, the Associated Press reports. The ruling comes in a suit brought by the states of Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia, the board of regents of the University System of Georgia, and the Associated Builders and Contractors. A similar decision was issued last week by a Kentucky judge affecting the states of Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. President Joe Biden’s two other vaccine mandates (one for health care workers and one for private businesses with more than 100 workers) also have been blocked by federal judges across the country.