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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Federal employee group broadens legal case against Biden vaccine mandate - Washington Examiner

A group of federal employees suing the Biden administration over its vaccine mandates has filed a new lawsuit in federal court that broadens the scope of its arguments.

Thirty-nine unnamed federal workers across the government at the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Treasury, as well as the CIA, sued Biden administration Cabinet officials in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Friday, according to a copy of the lawsuit first obtained by the Washington Examiner.

“I believe that our lawsuit is based on sound research and how the federal employment discrimination law has been developed over the past four decades,” said Carol Thompson, an attorney with the Federal Practice Group in Washington, one of the two firms involved. "I do also see that this may be something that doesn't end at the federal district court level, given that there are different federal district courts coming out in different ways. I perceive it as being an issue that ultimately is possibly going to be seen by the Supreme Court, potentially."

The Supreme Court has already sided against the Biden administration once, blocking a mandate on large private companies Tuesday, while letting stand a separate rule that requires vaccines for healthcare workers at facilities that received federal funding.

Federal judges for the District of Columbia in November denied halting the separate mandates for federal workers and government contractors, one...



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