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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

New Federal Court Decisions Continue Vaccine Mandate Debates

In our experience, most employers outside of the health care industry have largely lost interest in mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. Given the less lethal variants that cause most current infections, along with lowered rates...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Supreme Court Ruling Permits CMS Vaccine Mandate for Employees of Healthcare Facilities to Become Effective

On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Supreme Court Issues Split Decisions on Federal Vaccine Mandates

On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court (“Court”) issued split decisions regarding Federal vaccine mandates issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Occupational Safety and Health...more

Saul Ewing LLP

What's Next for Employers After the SCOTUS' Decisions on the OSHA ETS Mandate and the CMS Rule?

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What’s Next for Employers After SCOTUS’ Decisions on the OSHA ETS Mandate and the CMS Rule? On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted the stay of the federal vaccine or testing mandate, effectively killing...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Supreme Court Rescues Large Employers from the OSHA ETS Vaccine Mandate

Employers with 100 or more employees can breathe a sigh of relief as the United States Supreme Court has come to the rescue and blocked the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) put in place by OSHA. How Did We Get Here?...more

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Supreme Court Brings Clarity to Federal Vax Mandates?

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Caption: On January 13, 2022, after hearing emergency oral arguments, the Supreme Court handed down decisions staying OSHA’s ETS and upholding the CMS Rule requiring healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated against...more

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Supreme Court Split Decision: Employer Vaccine-or-Test Rule Blocked; Health Care Vaccine Mandate Upheld

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On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued two decisions regarding requests to enjoin rules issued by federal agencies intended to increase vaccination rates....more

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U.S. Supreme Court Stays Enforcement of OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccine-or-Test Mandate, while Upholding Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare...

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On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in which it ordered a stay on the enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) pending disposition...more

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Supreme Court Stays CMS-Vaccine Injunctions: What’s Next for Health Care Providers

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Jan. 19, 2022 - This article has been updated to reflect updated implementation dates in some states. On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued dual decisions impacting the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)...more

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Supreme Court Upholds CMS COVID Vaccine Mandate

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate by a vote of 5 in favor and 4 dissenting....more

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U.S. Supreme Court Dissolves Injunction of CMS Vaccine Rule

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On January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 vote, granted the government’s request to overturn the injunction on The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) interim final rule requiring vaccinations of...more

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Supreme Court Keeps CMS Vaccine Requirement Alive Nationwide

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Less than one week after hearing oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed injunctions against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Rule (“Vaccine...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Injunctions Against CMS Vaccine Mandate

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On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, lifted lower court injunctions that had blocked enforcement in 25 states of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interim Final Rule requiring...more

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CMS Resumes Enforcement of Vaccine Requirement in Half of States

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While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Rule (“CMS Vaccine Requirement”) heads to the Supreme Court, CMS will resume enforcement in the half of U.S. states not...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Circuits Split on CMS Vaccine Mandate, Highlighting “Great Significance” of Issue as It Heads to Supreme Court

Three circuit court decisions issued in the past two weeks have considered the CMS vaccine mandate, bringing the issue – and similar vaccine mandate lawsuits – to the Supreme Court in the final weeks of the year. The CMS...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Legal updates on challenges to CMS vaccination mandate may cause more uncertainty

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Decisions over the past few days on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 vaccination mandate litigation we previously reported [BB1] earlier this month may cause more confusion. The CMS vaccination rule,...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Industry Remains on Hold in South Carolina and Georgia But Not North Carolina

On December 15, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially lifted a nationwide stay issued by a Louisiana federal district court that preliminarily enjoined the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

One Hot Mess: CMS Vaccine Mandate For Health Care Employers Is On Hold, But Not Everywhere

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction that had been granted on November 30, temporarily blocking the vaccine mandate issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more

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CMS COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Back in 25 States

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There have been significant developments in the legal challenges brought against the interim final rule of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS rule”), which requires vaccination of all healthcare workers at...more

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Fifth Circuit Grants, In Part, Motion to Stay Nationwide Preliminary Injunction on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid COVID-19...

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On December 15, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted, in part, the federal administration’s motion to stay the nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) from...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Fifth Circuit Lifts Nationwide Ban on CMS Vaccine Mandate, Limiting Ban to Litigant States

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On December 15, 2021, in State of Louisiana et al. v. Xavier Becerra, et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) effectively revived the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Final...more

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CMS Vaccine Mandate Continues Its Path to U.S. Supreme Court as Fifth Circuit Narrows Nationwide Injunction

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The Fifth Circuit has found that the nationwide injunction of the CMS vaccine mandate issued by the Western District of Louisiana should be narrowed to apply only to the 14 states involved in the Louisiana lawsuit. This comes...more

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CMS Vaccine Mandate – On Again (Sort Of)?

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In the ongoing saga of the federal government’s attempts to impose vaccine mandates on certain sectors, on Wednesday, December 15, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the nationwide...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

CMS Vaccine Mandate – Ban Lifted In 26 States

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In the never-ending saga of the vaccine mandate imposed for health care workers by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the government had a favorable result today. CMS suspended its vaccine mandate pending...more

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CMS Issues Memorandum Stating It Will Not Enforce Its COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate While There are Court-Ordered Injunctions in Place

On December 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memorandum to state survey agencies indicating that it will not enforce its Interim Final Rule (the “Rule”) regarding health care worker...more

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