The Court determined that petitioners were likely to succeed on the merits for numerous reasons. By contrast, the Fifth Circuit characterized OSHA’s ETS as a “one-size-fits all sledgehammer” that largely fails to take into account differences in workplaces and workers.Īpplying a four-factor test for evaluating the petitioners’ emergency stay motion, the Court concluded that all four factors were easily met. The Court emphasized that OSHA’s ability to issue an emergency temporary standard is an extraordinary power that should be delicately exercised in limited circumstances. The Fifth Circuit’s Order is highly critical of OSHA and its ETS, calling it a “work-around” to bypass notice-and-comment requirements in order to achieve a national vaccine mandate where other federal authority to do so was lacking. The Court’s Order also went a step further, directing “that OSHA take no steps to implement or enforce the until further court order.”
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Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit promptly issued a NovemOrder that imposed a temporary stay of enforcement of the ETS pending expedited review of petitioners’ motion for an emergency stay.Īfter completing that expedited review, the Fifth Circuit issued a 22-page decision on Novemthat granted the petitioners’ motion and extended its prior stay pending full judicial review of the application for a permanent injunction. As discussed in our prior alert, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) immediately faced legal challenges seeking to strike it down.
Following its formal publication in the Federal Register on November 5, 2021, the new Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing (“ETS”) promulgated by the U.S.
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