COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

What should we think about this mandate? Is it legal?

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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Resources and Tools

About

The Biden administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated through The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). You may be among them. Learn more about how it could impact you, your options, the cases underway to fight the mandate.

Resources

Submit Comments on OSHA’s Rule, Heritage Action for America
Religious Liberty Protection Kit for vaccine mandates, including sample exemption requests, First Liberty Institute
Information about Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Alliance Defending Freedom
Religious Accommodations and Assistance for Employees, Students, Military and Employers, Pacific Justice Institute
Form to Request Legal Help, Thomas More Society
Help with non-religious exemptions, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Model Language for Religious Accommodation Request, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Model Language for Religious Accommodation Request for Contractors, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Analysis

Commentary: Here’s Why OSHA Has No Legal Power To Enforce A Vaccine Mandate
Video: Heritage Explains Biden's Vaccine Mandate: What You Need to Know
Commentary: I Am Challenging the Vaccine Mandate to Protect My Workers' Jobs
Commentary: Our Vaccine Status Is None of Their Business
Commentary: Biden’s Lawless Vaccine Mandate
Commentary: When Are Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Required?
Commentary: How Biden’s COVID-Testing Mandate Violates Civil Rights
Commentary: In OSHA We Trust?
Statement: Heritage Experts: Biden Administration’s COVID Vaccine Mandate Will Not Stand
Event: What's Wrong with President Biden's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Commentary: Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates
Commentary: Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Needlessly Polarize, Impede Private Sector Labor Market
Commentary: Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme
Commentary: Biden’s Reckless Vaccine Mandate Risks Severe Economic Dislocation, Higher Price
Commentary: Why States Should Tune Out Washington’s COVID-19 Noise
Statement: Heritage President: Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Unacceptable, Must Be Rejected

Legal Scholarship and Court Cases

OSHA lacks the legal authority to impose a vaccine mandate, which has prompted court cases in multiple circuits.

AFPI v. OSHA

Organization: The America First Policy Institute, Alliance for Free Citizens
Court: Eighth Circuit

AFT Pennsylvania v. OSHA

Organization: AFT Pennsylvania
Court: Third Circuit

Answers in Genesis v. OSHA

Organization: First Liberty Institute
Court: Sixth Circuit

BST Holdings v. OSHA

Organizations: Liberty Justice Center, Pelican Institute
Court: Fifth Circuit

Daily Wire v. OSHA

Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, Center for American Liberty
Court: Sixth Circuit

Florida v. OSHA

Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, States of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama
Court: Eleventh Circuit

Health Freedom Defense Fund

Organization: Health Freedom Defense Fund
Court: Middle District of Florida

Kentucky v. OSHA

Organizations: States of Kentucky, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia
Court: Sixth Circuit

Leadingedge Personnel v. OSHA

Organizations: Texas Public Policy Foundation, American First Legal
Court: Fifth Circuit

Massachusetts Building Trades Council v. OSHA

Organization: Massachusetts Building Trades Council
Court: First Circuit

Missouri v. Biden

Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, States of Missouri, Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, New Hampshire, Wyoming
Court: Eighth Circuit

National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians v. OSHA