June 18, 2024
In a nonprecedential opinion, the Ninth Circuit has refused to restore a COVID vaccine mandate suit brought by federal workers and contractors who also sought to disqualify a judge they believed was conflicted, finding the workers lacked standing because they named officials who cannot reinstate them rather than their employers.
November 09, 2023
A group of federal workers and contractors brought its denied disqualification bid to the Ninth Circuit this week, asking the appellate court to side with the workers in their push to have a Southern District of California judge step down from their vaccine mandate lawsuit due to financial conflict concerns.