WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court panel Thursday vacated an April 2022 ruling that had declared unlawful a government order requiring masks on airplanes and other transportation modes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department had asked 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to declare the issue moot after President Joe Biden ended the COVID-19 public health emergency in May. “There is not a grain of evidence that the CDC has any plans to promulgate an identical mandate,” the court ruled.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
