Cruise Lines, Florida Agree To Dismiss Appeal Of Florida Vaccine Documentation Ban

Mealey's (February 22, 2023, 9:21 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — In an appeal before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in which the state of Florida challenged a federal court’s ruling enjoining the state surgeon general from enforcing a statutory ban on businesses requiring customers to provide documentation of COVID-19 vaccination, the state and the group of cruise lines that originally sued to block the statutory ban filed a joint stipulation of dismissal two months after a split 11th Circuit panel denied the cruise lines’ motion to dismiss the appeal as moot....