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Polybius

(16,533 posts)
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 02:53 PM Dec 2021

Supreme Court receives appeals asking Kavanaugh to block large employer vaccine mandate

Source: CNN

(CNN)The Supreme Court Monday said it has received several appeals asking Justice Brett Kavanaugh to consider the Biden administration's requirement that large employers mandate their employees obtain a Covid-19 vaccine or submit to weekly testing.

The appeals come as the pandemic rages globally and the omicron variant takes hold over the holiday season.

Business groups, religious nonprofits and Republican-led states want to freeze a federal appeals court decision from Friday that revived the mandate while the appeals process plays out. As an alternative argument, some of the parties say they want the court to step in now and hear arguments in the case, bypassing the normal appeals process.

The legal papers are directed to Kavanaugh because he has jurisdiction over the appeals court that made the ruling. He is likely to refer the matter to the full court. The court asked for responses by December 30 to the mandate challengers' request.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/supreme-court-kavanaugh-osha-vaccine-mandate-omicron/index.html



Oh boy, so it's up to him?
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Supreme Court receives appeals asking Kavanaugh to block large employer vaccine mandate (Original Post) Polybius Dec 2021 OP
Yea right. When the APPEALs came to them about the stupid fucking texas abortion bullshit they bluestarone Dec 2021 #1
Exactly. n/t iluvtennis Dec 2021 #2
Okay, keep DownriverDem Dec 2021 #3
No, its not up to him in this case. former9thward Dec 2021 #4
Exactly LeftInTX Dec 2021 #6
Each justice is assigned to a specific appeals court LeftInTX Dec 2021 #5
Maybe they can throw out OSHA's draconian rule on shoes and hardhats, too Orrex Dec 2021 #7
And those darn safety guards on equipment, too! NullTuples Dec 2021 #8

bluestarone

(17,679 posts)
1. Yea right. When the APPEALs came to them about the stupid fucking texas abortion bullshit they
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 02:57 PM
Dec 2021

DID NOTHING! Total political!!!!

former9thward

(32,737 posts)
4. No, its not up to him in this case.
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 04:48 PM
Dec 2021

He will refer the case to the other members to see if they are interested in hearing an expedited appeal. If four of them are interested then they will hear the case

LeftInTX

(27,750 posts)
5. Each justice is assigned to a specific appeals court
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 05:09 PM
Dec 2021

This is probably the 6th Court of Appeals case out of Ohio


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