“The Mandate imposes a financial burden upon them by deputizing their participation in OSHA’s regulatory scheme, exposes them to severe financial risk if they refuse or fail to comply, and threatens to decimate their work-forces (and business prospects) by forcing unwilling employees to take their shots, take their tests, or hit the road,” they wrote. They said they believed that the ruling imposed a financial burden on businesses and potentially violated the commerce clause of the Constitution. “Rather than a delicately handled scalpel, the Mandate is a one-size fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers) that have more than a little bearing on workers’ varying degrees of susceptibility to the supposedly ‘grave danger’ the Mandate purports to address,” they wrote. I look forward to taking my fight all the way to the Highest Court.”Īccording to The Washington Post article: Calling the requirement a “mandate,” the court said the rule, instituted through the Labor Department, “grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority,” according to the opinion, written by Judge Kurt D. It's wrong for the federal government to order me to interfere in the private medical decisions of my team members or to impose insurmountable costs on my businesses. I am proud to be in this fight on behalf of not just my employees, but all Americans. Other states like: Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah joined in on that suit, as well as business owners.īrandon Trosclair, who employs nearly 500 people across 15 grocery stores in Louisiana and Mississippi said, "Today’s ruling marks a tremendous success because the court recognizes how this mandate would impair our liberty and infringe on our constitutional rights. "The President will not impose medical procedures on the American people without the checks and balances afforded by the Constitution," Landry stated on his Nov. "The Court’s action not only halts Biden from moving forward with his unlawful overreach, but it also commands the judicious review we sought," Landry states. This comes after Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, some states, businesses, and legal groups filed a lawsuit to halt the Biden administration's attempt to mandate vaccines on businesses with 100 or more workers.
NEW ORLEANS - Late Friday, a panel of judges with The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals doubled down on their decision to pause a federal vaccine mandate on bigger businesses.
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