11th Circuit Panel Lifts Block Of Florida Ban On Requiring Vaccine Documentation

Mealey's (October 10, 2022, 11:17 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A split panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction granted by a Florida federal court enjoining the state surgeon general from enforcing a statutory ban on businesses requiring customers to provide documentation of COVID-19 vaccination, holding that the statute is a regulation of economic conduct that only incidentally burdens free speech and does not implicate the First Amendment and that Florida’s interests in protecting its residents from discrimination and invasions of privacy outweigh any burdens on interstate commerce imposed by the statute....