5th Circuit Court of Appeals

In U.S. Navy Seals, et. al. v. Biden. et. al., the court has dismissed the case.

This appeal involves the Navy's near-categorical refusal to accommodate servicemembers' inability to receive a vaccine due to their religious convictions. The district court twice enjoined the Navy's policies as likely illegal under RFRA. After entry of those injunctions, however, Congress ordered the military branches to rescind their mandates. The Navy complied with that directive and then went above and beyond it—rescinding all the challenged policies and formally announcing that COVID-19 vaccines would not be imposed on any servicemember.
The Navy's actions moot this appeal. So, despite the overwhelming importance of the issues presented, we lack jurisdiction to address them.