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Ogletree Deakins Insights
Is This the End of the Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate?
By By Leigh M. Nason, T. Scott Kelly, Publisher, Hera S. Arsen Ph.D.
On May 1, 2023, the Biden administration announced that it will end the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for federal contractors on May 11, 2023—which is the day that the COVID-19 public…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Biden Administration Announces End of Contractor COVID Vaccine Mandate
By Kris D. Meade, Peter J. Eyre, Thomas P. Gies, Rina Gashaw
On May 1, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its plan to issue an Executive Order in the coming days to rescind the existing executive order that imposes COVID vaccine requirements and safety…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Will End on May 12
By Guy Brenner, Olympia Karageorgiou
On May 1, the Biden Administration announced that the federal contractor and subcontractor (“Contractor”) vaccine mandate (the “Contractor Vaccine Requirement”) issued by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”)…
Labor & Employment Insights
Smucker’s Out of a Jam: Sixth Circuit Says Being a Federal Contractor Does Not Make You a State Actor
If you take on a federal contract, does that make you a state actor? No, according to a unanimous Sixth Circuit panel in Ciraci v. J.M. Smucker Company. The Facts…
BuildSmart
COVID-19 May Be Over, but Fight Over the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is Not
By Patrick R. Quigley, Aron C. Beezley
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration stated that it intends to extend the previously declared COVID-19 national emergency and the separately declared public health emergency until May 11, 2023,…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Sixth Circuit Upholds Block of Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
On January 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld most of a district court’s injunction blocking the federal contractor vaccine mandate in Kentucky, Ohio, and…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Blocking Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By By: Emily M. Halliday, Zachary V. Zagger
On December 19, 2022, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 federal contractor vaccine…
GovCon & Trade
DOJ’s Quixotic Defense of the Vaccine Mandate May Undermine Presidential Authority
As we have discussed at length on this blog, for more than a year federal courts have repeatedly held that, for various reasons, President Biden lacked the authority to mandate…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
Fifth Circuit Affirms Injunction Preventing Enforcement of Contractor Vaccine Mandate Against Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi
By Guy Brenner, Jacob P. Tucker, Olympia Karageorgiou
On December 19, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the federal contractor and subcontractor vaccine mandate requirements issued in response to…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
Task Force and OMB Issue New Guidance on Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate
By Guy Brenner, Olympia Karageorgiou
As federal contractors are aware, on December 7, 2021, a federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the federal contractor and subcontractor vaccine mandate requirements issued by…