June 06, 2022
A Fifth Circuit panel on Monday doubted its authority to do anything but reverse a Louisiana federal judge's order and send back for further proceedings a lawsuit brought by 14 states challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for certain health care workers.
March 04, 2022
The full Fifth Circuit has denied a request from Louisiana and 13 other states to amend a lawsuit challenging a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, holding that doing so at this point in the case would alter the status of the appeal.
December 15, 2021
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday narrowed the scope of a nationwide injunction issued by a Louisiana federal judge last month that temporarily blocked a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, holding that it should apply only in the 14 states challenging the rule, not the entire country.