Observers Downplay 5th Circuit’s Rapid Stay Of OSHA Vaccination Rule

Legal experts and a former OSHA official say a federal appeals court’s order blocking implementation of the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine standard is unlikely to have a long-term impact on the rule, while worker safety advocates are pointing to the unusually quick ruling as proof that politics are “front and center” in litigation over the policy. “At this point, we don’t know what the 5th Circuit meant because they gave a very general decision,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at the...