Publications

On December 17, 2021, a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit delivered a highly anticipated decision regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”).  In a divided decision, the Sixth Circuit granted the Biden […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring COVID-19 vaccination for covered healthcare staff has been met with challenge after challenge.  These roadblocks to enforcement will persist under a new decision from the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. On December 13, 2021, the Eighth […]

On November 18, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service released Revenue Procedures 2021-48, 2021-49, and 2021-50 to provide flexibility for the tax treatment of the tax-exempt income arising from forgiveness of a loan made by the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). Revenue Procedure 2021-48 provides […]

According to a December 9, 2021 posting on the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force’s website, the Office of Management and Budget issued guidance[1] related to its enforcement of the federal contractor vaccine mandate.  This guidance comes two days after a federal court in Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction halting […]

In a continuing trend of court orders halting the Biden administration’s broad plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccines, the latest blow comes in the form of a nationwide block to stop enforcement of vaccine mandates against certain federal contractors and subcontractors. Last week, a Kentucky federal district court issued a preliminary […]