Resources and Tools: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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The Biden administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated through The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). You may be among them. Learn more about how it could impact you, your options, the cases underway to fight the mandate.

Resources

• Submit Comments on OSHA’s Rule, Heritage Action for America
• Religious Liberty Protection Kit for vaccine mandates, including sample exemption requests, First Liberty Institute 
• Information about Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Alliance Defending Freedom
• Religious Accommodations and Assistance for Employees, Students, Military and Employers,Pacific Justice Institute
• Form to Request Legal Help, Thomas More Society
• Help with non-religious exemptions, Texas Public Policy Foundation
• Model Language for Religious Accommodation Request, Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Model Language for Religious Accommodation Request for Contractors, Ethics and Public Policy Center 

Analysis

• Video: Heritage Explains Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: What You Need to Know
• Commentary: I Am Challenging the Vaccine Mandate to Protect My Workers’ Jobs
• Commentary: Our Vaccine Status Is None of Their Business
• Commentary: Biden’s Lawless Vaccine Mandate
• Commentary: When Are Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Required?
• Commentary: How Biden’s COVID-Testing Mandate Violates Civil Rights
• Commentary: In OSHA We Trust?
• Statement: Heritage Experts: Biden Administration’s COVID Vaccine Mandate Will Not Stand
• Event: What’s Wrong with President Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
• Commentary: Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates
• Commentary: Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Needlessly Polarize, Impede Private Sector Labor Market
• Commentary: Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme
• Commentary: Biden’s Reckless Vaccine Mandate Risks Severe Economic Dislocation, Higher Price
• Commentary: Why States Should Tune Out Washington’s COVID-19 Noise 
• Statement: Heritage President: Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Unacceptable, Must Be Rejected 

Legal Scholarship and Court Cases

• Law Review: The OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19 Vaccinations
• Law Review: The Irrepressible Myth of Jacobson v. Massachusetts
• Law Review: When Exemptions Discriminate: Unlawfully Narrow Religious Exemptions to Vaccination Mandates by Private Colleges and Universities
• Comment: Non-Delegation, Major Questions, and the OSHA Vaccine Mandate

OSHA lacks the legal authority to impose a vaccine mandate, which has prompted court cases in multiple circuits.

AFPI v. OSHA

• Organization: The America First Policy Institute, Alliance for Free Citizens
• Court: Eighth Circuit

AFT Pennsylvania v. OSHA

• Organization: AFT Pennsylvania
• Court: Third Circuit

Answers in Genesis v. OSHA

• Organization: First Liberty Institute
• Court: Sixth Circuit

BST Holdings v. OSHA

• Organizations: Liberty Justice Center, Pelican Institute
• Court: Fifth Circuit

Daily Wire v. OSHA

• Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, Center for American Liberty
• Court: Sixth Circuit

Florida v. OSHA

• Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, States of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama
• Court: Eleventh Circuit

Health Freedom Defense Fund

• Organization: Health Freedom Defense Fund
• Court: Middle District of Florida

Kentucky v. OSHA

• Organizations: States of Kentucky, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia
• Court: Sixth Circuit

Leadingedge Personnel v. OSHA

• Organizations: Texas Public Policy Foundation, American First Legal
• Court: Fifth Circuit

Massachusetts Building Trades Council v. OSHA

• Organization: Massachusetts Building Trades Council
• Court: First Circuit

Missouri v. Biden

• Organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, States of Missouri, Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, New Hampshire, Wyoming
• Court: Eighth Circuit

National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians v. OSHA

• Organization: National Association of Broad Employees & Technicians
• Court: Ninth Circuit

Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company v. U.S. Department of Labor

• Organization: Buckeye Institute
• Court: Sixth Circuit

Republican National Committee v. OSHA

• Organization: Republican National Committee
• Court: D.C. Circuit

SEIU v. OSHA

• Organization: SEIU
• Court: Second Circuit

Southern Baptist Evangelical Seminary v. OSHA

• Organization: Alliance Defending Freedom
• Court: Sixth Circuit

Tankcraft Corporation v. OSHA

• Organization: Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
• Court: Seventh Circuit

Texas Trucking Association v. OSHA

• Organization: NFIB Small Business Legal Center
• Court: Fifth Circuit

Texas v. U.S. Department of Labor

• Organizations: Mississippi Justice Institute, States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah
• Court: Fifth Circuit

United Association of Journeymen v. OSHA

• Organization: United Ass’n of Journeyman
• Court: Fourth Circuit

Word of God Fellowship v. OSHA

• Organization: First Liberty Institute
• Court: Fifth Circuit

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