Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked Nationwide as of 12.8.21
A federal judge in Georgia issued a nationwide injunction blocking Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The case is Georgia v. Biden, S.D. Ga., No. 21-cv-00163, 12/7/21. The mandate was set to take effect on January 4 and would have impacted an estimated quarter of the total U.S. workforce. As we reported previously, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction on November 30, 2021, but that injunction only applies to employers in the states of Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The ruling today [12.8.21] blocks the federal contractor vaccine mandate across the country.