WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance and its class action clients, James Joseph Rodden et al. v. Anthony Fauci, MD, et al.have submitted one friend of the court meager in Feds for Medical Freedom vs. Biden, a similar case trying to overturn the vaccination mandate placed on federal employees. NCLA and the rodden Plaintiffs claim that on the bench Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas’ original injunction against President Biden’s unprecedented vaccination mandate. The NCLA brief references the most recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). guidance advise all federal agencies to: (1) “pause” the collection of vaccine information from employees; and (2) treat vaccinated and unvaccinated employees equally.

A split Fifth Circuit panel in April cleared the statewide injunction against the vaccination mandate for federal employees, which ruled that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) precluded a district court review of federal employee challenges. The panel’s flawed decision protects unlawful government mandates against federal employees from judicial review and would allow only a case-by-case administrative determination of class-wide constitutional violations. The refusal to review these executive hiring decisions except in the context of individual disciplinary procedures opens the door to arbitrary and repressive government action aimed at intimidating employees into losing their careers. More than 10 million federal employees and contractors are currently required to give up health autonomy as a condition of working for the federal government.

In its guidance issued on August 17, 2022, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force directed all federal agencies to “stop requiring documentation of immunization status from employees… [or] Ask about the vaccination status of contractors’ employees on site and…