Case Update: Victory against government overreach! After Executive Order 14042 was revoked, the parties jointly dismissed the case, as the employees were no longer wrongly required to receive and disclose their Covid-19 vaccine status.
Case Background: On September 9, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to issue a slate of federal vaccine mandates to impact nearly every American worker. The President declared that federal employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19, including members of the U.S. military. He also announced a requirement for all healthcare workers.
The Biden Administration’s mandates did not end with government employees or healthcare workers. The President went far beyond his already questionable legal authority in this area to require U.S. employees of private businesses to be vaccinated just because their employer has a contract with the federal government. This mandate, unlike the requirement for other private businesses under OHSA, did not allow for a testing alternative. The edict impacted an estimated one-fifth of the U.S. workforce.
Shortly after the President issued Executive Order 14042, multinational company 3M announced that its 40,000 U.S. employees would be required to comply with the order. Simply put, because 3M holds contracts with the federal government, any employee who did not get the COVID-19 shots would lose their jobs.
Four 3M workers in Texas and Minnesota stood up to stop this illegal vaccine mandate. With the help of attorneys at the Liberty Justice Center, three employees of the Brownwood, Texas, facility and one employee in Hutchinson, Minnesota, sued President Biden and other executive branch officials to stop this illegal federal vaccine mandate.
These employees personally objected to the vaccine requirement. They believed the President’s contractor mandate was illegal and they did not believe they should be required to share their vaccination status with their employer, 3M.
Former Liberty Justice attorney Buck Dougherty represented the plaintiffs, four 3M employees who were designated as being covered by the Federal Contractors Mandate pursuant to Executive Order 14042, which 3M implemented by requiring its employees choose between being vaccinated or losing their jobs, and furthermore, compelling them to engage in political speech by requiring them to disclose their vaccination status.
The lawsuit was part of a larger effort to stop the Biden Administration from imposing illegal vaccine mandates on huge portion of Americans. These mandates were outside of the President’s legal authority and the authority given to executive departments and agencies.
No results found.