Conservative law firms, states and legal organizations, including Consovoy McCarthy and Boyden Gray & Associates, moved swiftly over the weekend to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s employer vaccine mandate as they pursue appeals.

The emergency applications followed the Friday ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that voted 2-1 to lift a stay imposed on the mandate by the Fifth Circuit. Multiple cases challenging the mandate had been consolidated in the Sixth Circuit following a judicial lottery process.