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Prior to the preliminary injunction from the court in Texas, federal vaccine holdouts who did not receive a medical or religious exemption would be fired.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Government attorneys have contacted the legal team for the plaintiffs, a group called Feds for Medical Freedom, and the plaintiffs oppose the request, according to a footnote.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a separate case, hundreds of security guards and other federal and contract employees at DoE’s Hanford Site filed a motion in federal district court for Eastern Washington late last week, urging the judge to reject the government’s motion to dismiss their second amended complaint.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hanford vaccine objectors, represented by a group called the Silent Majority Foundation, noted the 5</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Circuit has overturned the nationwide preliminary injunction against the vaccine mandate for federal employees and the Eleventh Circuit is considering whether to overturn a national injunction against Biden’s executive order for contractor employees.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Each Plaintiff is either a federal contractor or a federal employee, subject to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate under EO 14042 or EO 14043, respectively,” according to the motion. “Most plaintiffs have maintained their jobs by obtaining temporary accommodations from their employers,” which should be made permanent, the plaintiffs argue.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, seven plaintiffs working for Battelle Memorial Institute’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a government facility at the Hanford Site, have been terminated or placed on indefinite leave without pay, according to the filing.</span></p> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="fullwidth-widget-wrap"> <div class="widget-ad widget-ad-incontent incontent"> <div class="wrapper">  <script>var AIAD_f6e35f56f665511b65de989e13627d1f_67423e521a694; 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