As previously reported, President Biden’s Federal Contractor Vaccine mandate is under a nationwide injunction and that does not look to be changing anytime soon.

In December 2021, the Administration filed their appeal of the preliminary injunction ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and requested a stay of the injunction. On December 17, 2021, the 11th Circuit denied the motion to stay the preliminary injunction, stating that the government failed to establish that it would be irreparably injured absent a stay. On December 21, 2021, the Court pushed back the briefing schedule by roughly two weeks and set oral argument for the week of April 4, 2022. On December 22, 2021, the Parties filed an unopposed motion to expedite oral argument, scheduling it for no later than the end of February 2022. The 11th Circuit denied the Parties’  motion to expedite oral argument, claiming that the Court had already “expedited briefing and oral argument” (despite the fact that the Court had delayed the briefing schedule on December 21, 2021).  As a result, the current schedule is as follows:

  • January 18, 2022 – Deadline for Defendants to file initial brief
  • February 8, 2022 – Deadline for Plaintiffs to file answer
  • February 22, 2022 – Deadline for Defendants to file reply
  • April 4, 2022 – Oral argument

Today, January 21, 2022, Judge Jeffrey Brown from the Southern District of Texas granted a separate nationwide injunction of the federal employee Vaccine mandate Executive Order 14043 in the case of  Feds for Medical Freedom et al v. Biden, S.D. Tex., No. 3:21-cv-00356.  Judge Brown specifically ordered the government is “enjoined from implementing or enforcing Executive Order 14043 until this case is resolved on the merits.”

Stay tuned for any new developments.

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Laura A. Mitchell is a Principal in the Denver, Colorado, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She is a member of the firm’s Affirmative Action and OFCCP Defense practice group as well as the firm’s Pay Equity Resource Group. She is also on the…

Laura A. Mitchell is a Principal in the Denver, Colorado, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She is a member of the firm’s Affirmative Action and OFCCP Defense practice group as well as the firm’s Pay Equity Resource Group. She is also on the leadership team for the firm’s Government Contractor Industry Group.

Her practice is focused on representing government and non-government contractors in OFCCP matters, preparing for and defending OFCCP audits, and counseling employers on issues stemming from OFCCP regulations. Ms. Mitchell personally oversees the development of hundreds of AAPs each year and is intimately involved in the defense of numerous OFCCP audits. She also spends significant time counseling companies in connection with conducting pay equity analyses as well as government contractor employment obligations.

Ms. Mitchell is the editor and a principal contributor of The Affirmative Action Law Advisor blog and frequently presents on pay equity, affirmative action compliance, OFCCP enforcement trends, and government contractor obligations.

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