evidence: Status: Vaccine mandate on private employers with 100 or more employees rescinded after United States Supreme Court blocked its enforcement Attorney General Paxton and several allied states and companies sued the Biden Administration for its illegal and unconstitutional vaccine mandate imposed on private businesses. As part of his COVID-19 Action Plan announced in early September 2021, President Biden committed to requiring all private employers in America with 100 or more employees to force their employees to get vaccinated or submit to a weekly testing regime at their expense. Attorney General Paxton obtained a court order from the Fifth Circuit blocking enforcement of the mandate. Texas’ case was then grouped with other similar challenges in other states. The United States Supreme Court ultimately agreed that enforcement of the mandate should continue to be blocked, holding OSHA lacked authority to compel vaccine mandates through an "emergency temporary standard." After this ruling, and after Attorney General Paxton joined twenty-five other states requesting that the Biden Administration withdraw this unconstitutional mandate and pursue it no further, the mandate was withdrawn and all cases filed to block it were dismissed.