COVID-19 Vaccine Passport

The decision came three days after Norwegian announced it would no longer require passengers to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before boarding ships.

Now that Norwegian has lifted requirements that passengers show proof of vaccination against COVID, it says the state’s appeal in the case is moot and a preliminary injunction should be scrapped.

On Wednesday, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Miami.

"I didn't want to sue the governor, but I had no choice," says Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Frank Del Rio, one of the first business leaders to begin a comprehensive vaccine mandate for workers and customers.

San Francisco's only In-N-Out location still hasn't reopened for indoor dining. The restaurant violated public health requirements by allowing customers to enter without showing proof of vaccination.

The state law allows local governments to use "screening protocols consistent with authoritative or controlling government-issued guidance to protect public health.”

A Leon County circuit judge refused to block a state law that bans vaccine passports, explaining that in this particular case the issue is whether the law restricts Bead Abode's free speech or regulates conduct.

The Department of Health says the list is not of suspected or confirmed violators and “includes all entities that have been the subject of complaints from the public regarding the vaccine passport law.”

Bead Abode argues that the law violates the First Amendment and is seeking an injunction to block it.

Attorneys for the DeSantis administration wrote in a brief that the law is an “economic regulation that does not implicate” the First Amendment.