Update: CMS recently modified compliance deadlines for facilities previously subject to the injunctions lifted by the Supreme Court. Those facilities must now comply with phase 1 of the CMS rule by February 13, 2022 and phase...more
A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit, on Dec. 17, 2021, considered whether or not to extend the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the OSHA emergency temporary standard vaccine mandate or to reinstate the mandate. In a 2-1 majority...more
On November 10, 2021, the States of Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and New Hampshire (plaintiff states) filed an action in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern...more
On Nov. 6, 2021, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) vaccine mandate pending expedited judicial review. The Fifth Circuit, in a case filed by staffing companies, determined...more