11th Circuit Declines To Block International Traveler COVID Testing Requirement

Mealey's (May 13, 2022, 10:18 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — In a frequent air traveler’s appeal of a Florida federal court’s ruling that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transportation mask mandate and international traveler COVID-19 testing requirement for reentering the country were valid exercises of its legislative authority, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 12 denied the traveler’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction of the testing requirement and directed the clerk to treat any motion for consideration of the order as a non-emergency matter....