July 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A federal appeals court handed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) a big win Friday by reversing a prior decision which had favored COVID-19 mandates imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In its reversal, the court instead sided with the state of Florida and its ban on vaccine passports.
The reversal came just hours after DeSantis submitted an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court, CNBC reported, and marks a crucial victory in the national legal battle against vaccine mandates.
The decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest move in a tense confrontation between the CDC and the state of Florida going back as far as April, with the CDC imposing crushing COVID-19 restrictions on the cruise line industry, a major income-generator in the state.
“I’m glad to see the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reverse its prior decision and free the cruise lines from unlawful CDC mandates, which effectively mothballed the industry for more than a year,” DeSantis said in a statement July 23.
Florida’s five most popular ports, including Port Canaveral, Port Miami, and Port Everglades, account for “60 percent of embarkations at all U.S. ports,”
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