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OSHA Pauses Vaccine Mandate Over Court Stay, Leaves California Companies in Limbo
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended enforcement of its requirement that large employers nationwide ensure their workers are either vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested weekly for the virus by Jan. 4 in light of a court stay, throwing...
OSHA Suspends Enforcement of Employer Vaccine Mandate Following Fifth Circuit Order
The Occupational Safety and Healthcare Administration (OSHA) announced that it is “suspending activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS [OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard] pending future developments in the...
College Employees Are Getting Fired for Not Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine
College employees across the U.S. from faculty to football coaches are beginning to be fired or put on leave for failing to comply with their respective institutions' mandates that faculty and staff be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Many of the vaccine...
CDC Admits It Has No Record Of Unvaccinated People With Natural Immunity Against COVID Spreading The Virus
The debate on whether natural immunity or immunity from vaccines provide better protection against COVID rages on. Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) demonstrated conflicting evidence, adding more speculation on the efficacy of...
Two MSU employees were fired after refusing COVID-19 vaccine. Now they’re suing.
Two Michigan State University staff members were fired last week after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Now they're suing. "They all have naturally acquired immunity," said Jenin Younes, an attoreny with the New Civil Liberties Alliance. "So we're arguing that in...
Covid-19 Aid Rules Unlikely to Sway State Suits, Attorneys Say
...Treasury will likely ask judges for additional briefing when the final rules comes out, though they won’t remedy the issue of coercing state policy, said Peggy Little, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which has filed briefs supporting the states...
MSU Fires 96 Staffers, Suspends 17 Students for Not Following COVID Vaccine, Testing Rules
Michigan State University has suspended 17 students and fired 96 employees for not complying with COVID-19 vaccine or testing requirements, an MSU spokesman said Thursday. Two of those staffers — Kraig Ehm and D’Ann Rohrer — joined a federal lawsuit this month,...
NLRB’s ‘Salt Mine’ Tweet Decision Under Fire at Third Circuit
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia slammed the National Labor Relations Board’s decision that the publisher of conservative online magazine the Federalist unlawfully threatened workers by tweeting that he’d send them “back to the salt mine” if they tried to...
Federalist Fights NLRB’s Tweet Ruling At 3rd Circ.
The Third Circuit mulled Wednesday whether the National Labor Relations Board overstepped its authority by ordering The Federalist's publisher to delate a tweet that it would send "to the salt mine" employees who fought to unionize, saying the case raises significant...
Biden Called for Widespread Mandates. His VA Is Navigating Its Own Minefields.
President Joe Biden vowed this fall to make a sizable dent in the unvaccinated population by mandating that federal employees receive the Covid-19 vaccination. One month after the first agency hit its deadline for workforce vaccination, it’s made major strides but...
MSU Fires Staff, Suspends Students Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine; UM May Follow Suit
The state's two largest universities are sanctioning students and staff who refuse to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Michigan State University has fired at least two employees and suspended 16 students for refusing to get vaccinated. The University of Michigan...
First Lady Jill Biden Visits Virginia School To Push COVID-19 Shots for Children
...“The lack of a remote-work or a natural immunity exception, especially the latter, raises serious questions about whether the federal employee vaccine mandate is designed to accomplish a legitimate federal purpose. The paucity of exceptions on these very legitimate...
Federal Employees With Natural Immunity Sue Over Vaccine Mandate
Federal employees with naturally acquired immunity from having had COVID sued the federal government on November 8, 2021 over President Biden’s Executive Order requiring that all federal workers get vaccinated. Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the Safer Federal...
Local Charter Captains Push Back Against GPS Monitoring From Feds
Charter boat captains across the Gulf of Mexico are pushing back against the government tracking their every move. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wants to put something called a VMS system on every charter boat. VMS stands for Vessel...
NOAA Delays GPS Tracking Rule for Charter Boats Pending Lawsuit
The Biden administration agreed to postpone a rule requiring GPS tracking systems on charter boats that prompted a lawsuit by boat captains who say it creates constant, unconstitutional surveillance... Read the full article
VMS Requirement Deadline for Gulf of Mexico Charter Operators Pushed Back
Charter-fishing operators in the Gulf of Mexico will now have more time to install tracking systems meant to help with fisheries management. NOAA Fisheries published the extension regarding the Southeast For-Hire Integrated Electric Reporting Program in the Federal...
Philip Hamburger & Restrictions on Charity’s Free Speech
Today Jeremy speaks with Philip Hamburger about the surprising origins of the IRS's restrictions on a charity's political speech, and why those restrictions ought to be regarded as unconstitutional... Read the full article and listen to the podcast
6th Circuit Urged To Uphold Ruling To Allow State Tax Cuts
Congress ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution when it included a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 prohibiting states from cutting taxes if they receive funds under the plan to assist in their economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Civil...
SEC’s Board Diversity Drive Runs Risk of More Legal Challenges
The SEC faces a legal fight over its efforts to encourage diversity on corporate boards, but an agency focus on disclosure over quotas would complicate conservative activists’ arguments. The Securities and Exchange Commission already is facing two cases over...
Policy Groups, 20 States Back Ohio’s ARPA Fight In 6th Circ.
Three limited-government advocacy organizations and 20 states urged the Sixth Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the federal government from enforcing a law against Ohio that requires states to return coronavirus... Read the full article
More Lawsuits a Likely Result of SEC Shift on No-Admit, No-Deny Settlements
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to make it harder for companies and individually charged officers to settle allegations of wrongdoing without first admitting guilt. SEC enforcement chief Gurbir Grewal said last week the agency wants to move away...
Judge Again Sides With MSU in Lawsuit From Employee Over COVID Vaccine Mandate
A federal court has again sided with Michigan State University in a lawsuit from an employee challenging the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Judge Paul Maloney declined this month to grant Jeanna Norris a preliminary injunction that would have blocked MSU from...
Fight Against ‘Bump Stock Ban’ Reaches Fifth Circuit Court
Late last week the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, covering most of Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, took up “Michael Cargill v. Garland, et al,” a case challenging the 2017 Trump-issued Executive Order prompting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,...
MSU Vaccine Mandate Stands After Judge Again Denies Challenger
COVID-19 vaccinations will continue to be required at Michigan State University after a judge denied an employee’s attempt to block the mandate. MSU President Samuel Stanley Jr. announced July 30 that all students, faculty and staff would be required to get vaccinated...
Moms Fighting Back Over Masking Kids and CRT, with Maud Maron, Natalya Murakhver, and Jenin Younes
Megyn Kelly is joined by Maud Maron, a public defender and candidate for NYC City Council, Natalya Murakhver, founder of the "Mask Like A Kid" campaign, and Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who are three liberals, to talk about...