On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.
President Joe Biden signed the mandate—Executive Order 14042—on September 9, 2021, directing the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force to provide guidance on adequate COVID-19 safeguards that would apply to federal contractors and subcontractors. The task force released the guidance on September 24.
