Government Agencies Ordered to Erase All Federal Employee COVID Vaccination Records
U.S. government agencies have been ordered to erase any records of employees’ COVID-19 vaccination status, noncompliance with pandemic-era mandates, or vaccine exemption requests, according to an Aug. 8, 2025 memo from U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor. Issued in response to recent litigation, the directive comes four years after the previous administration […]
Appellate Court Blocks U.S. Government’s Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contract workers. The 2-1 decision by the court in New Orleans directly affects Indiana, Louisiana and Mississippi, while half of the other states have had their mandates blocked or partly blocked by other […]
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Temporarily Halts Biden Vaccine Mandate
On Nov. 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, covering parts of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, put a temporary stop to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate announcing…