MISSOURI v. BIDEN

No. 23-30445.

83 F.4th 350 (2023)

State of MISSOURI; State of Louisiana; Aaron Kheriaty; Martin Kulldorff; Jim Hoft; Jayanta Bhattacharya; Jill Hines, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Joseph R. BIDEN, Jr.; Vivek H. Murthy; Xavier Becerra; Department of Health & Human Services; Anthony Fauci; Et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED October 3, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua M. Divine , Solicitor, Todd Scott , Office of The Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee State of Missouri.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, Dean John Sauer , James Otis Law Group, L.L.C., Saint Louis, MO, Tracy Short , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA for Plaintiff-Appellee State of Louisiana.

John Julian Vecchione , Jenin Younes , New Civil Liberties Alliance, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Aaron Kheriaty, Martin Kulldorff, Jayanta Bhattacharya, and Jill Hines.

Jonathon Christian Burns , St. Louis, MO, Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Jim Hoft.

Daniel Winik , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Simon Christopher Brewer , Attorney, Daniel Bentele Hahs Tenny, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Glynn Shelly Maturin, II , Welborn & Hargett, L.L.C., Lafayette, LA, for Amicus Curiae Children's Health Defense.

John B. Bellinger, III , R. Stanton Jones , Elisabeth S. Theodore , Stephen K. Wirth , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Leland Stanford Junior University, Alex Stamos, and Renee DiResta.

David A. Greene , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Jay A. Sekulow, Esq. , American Center for Law & Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Center for Law and Justice.

Leonid Goldstein, Tyler, TX, Pro Se.

Scott L. Winkelman , Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Jon Marshall Greenbaum, Esq. , Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Scott L. Winkelman , Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Washington, DC, or Amid Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and Common Cause.

Grace Zhou , Office of the Attorney General for the State of New York, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae State of New York, State of Arizona, State of California, State of Colorado, State of Connecticut, State of Delaware, State of Hawaii, State of Illinois, State of Maine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Michigan, State of Minnesota, State of Nevada, State of New Jersey, State of New Mexico, State of Oregon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Rhode Island, State of Vermont, State of Wisconsin, and District of Columbia.

David Anthony Dalia , New Orleans, LA, for Amid Curiae America's Frontline Doctors, and Dr. Simone Gold, M.D., J.D.

Jay R. Carson , Wegman Hessler Valore, Cleveland, OH, for Amicus Curiae The Buckeye Institute.

Peter Martin Torstensen, Jr. , Montana Attorney General's Office, Solicitor General's Office, Helena, MT, for Amici Curiae State of Montana, State of Idaho, State of Iowa, State of Kansas, State of Nebraska, State of South Carolina, and State of Utah.

Travis Christopher Barham , Alliance Defending Freedom, Lawrenceville, GA, for Amicus Curiae Alliance Defending Freedom.

Henry Charles Whitaker , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, for Amicus Curiae State of Florida.

Eric Arthur Sell , Mount Airy, MD, for Amicus Curiae Center for American Liberty.

William Jeffrey Olson, Esq. , William J. Olson, P.C., Vienna, VA, for Amici Curiae Free Speech Coalition, Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Gun Owners of America, Incorporated, Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of California, Tennessee Firearms Association, Public Advocate of the United States, U.S. Constitutional Rights Legal Defense Fund, Leadership Institute, One Nation Under God Foundation, Downsize DC.org, Downsize DC Foundation, Eagle Forum, Eagle Forum Foundation, The Western Journal, and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Christopher A. Ferrara , Whitestone, NY, Brennan Tyler Brooks, Esq. , Senior Trial Counsel, Thomas More Society, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Angela Reading.

Christopher Ernest Mills , Spero Law, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, Gene Patrick Hamilton , America First Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Jim Jordan, Kelly Armstrong, Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop, Kat Cammack, Russell Fry, Lance Gooden, Harriet Hageman, Mike Johnson, Thomas Massie, Barry Moore, and Elise Stefanik.

Before Clement, Elrod, and Willett, Circuit Judges.


ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

The petition for panel rehearing is GRANTED. We WITHDRAW our previous opinion and substitute the following.

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