- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
States, businesses and religious groups have challenged a Biden administration rule requiring larger businesses to mandate vaccines or weekly testing for employees.Credit…Gabby Jones for The New York Times
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday evening that it would hold a special hearing next month to assess the legality of two initiatives at the heart of the Biden administration’s efforts to address the coronavirus in the workplace.
The court said it would move with exceptional speed on the two measures, a vaccine-or-testing mandate aimed at large employers and a vaccination requirement for certain health care workers, setting the cases for argument on Friday, Jan. 7. The justices had not been scheduled to return to the bench until the following Monday.
Both sets of cases had been on what critics call the court’s shadow docket, in which the court decides emergency applications, sometimes on matters of great consequence, without full briefing and…
