WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Division is submitting an attraction looking for to overturn a choose’s order that voided the federal masks mandate on planes, trains and journey hubs, officers mentioned Wednesday.
It got here minutes after the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention requested the Justice Division to attraction the choice handed down by a federal choose in Florida earlier this week.
A discover of attraction was filed in federal court docket in Tampa.
The CDC mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday that it’s its “persevering with evaluation that presently an order requiring masking within the indoor transportation hall stays mandatory for the general public well being.”
The CDC mentioned it is going to proceed to observe public well being situations to find out if a mandate would stay mandatory. It mentioned it believes the mandate is “a lawful order, properly inside CDC’s authorized authority to guard public well being.”
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