11th Circuit: Challenge To Expired COVID-19 Air Travel Restrictions Is Moot

(January 3, 2024, 11:00 AM EST) -- 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, a panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a per curiam opinion vacated the lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the CDC with instructions to dismiss the case as moot....