Challenge To COVID-Era Federal Vaccination Mandates Dismissed As Moot

(September 30, 2024, 2:34 PM EDT) -- CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge granted the federal government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by four individuals claiming that President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s executive orders requiring COVID-19 vaccines for federal employees and contractors violated their constitutional rights, ruling that the action was moot and that exceptions to mootness that might preserve the lawsuit’s viability did not apply....