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Edward Walton v. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al.
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 24-2473 · judgment January 14, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner’s Due Process claim without remanding for factual development on the COVID-19 vaccine’s classification as non-traditional, in conflict with the Ninth Circuit’s approach in Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Carvalho, Inc., No. 22-55908 (9th Cir. 2024), which accepted similar allegations as plausible for pleading purposes.
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Whether a private employer’s mandate of a non-traditional vaccine without informed consent violates the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act’s (GINA) coercion prohibition, particularly when based on an enjoined federal executive order.
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Whether a private employer can be held Hable under constitutional or GINA . frameworks for enforcing a federal executive order subject to judicial injunctions, such as Executive Order 14042.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Edward Walton
For respondent
Benjamin R. Marble
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 17 2025The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied. Petitioner is allowed until December 8, 2025, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
- Oct 30 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/14/2025.
- Oct 22 2025Waiver of right of respondent Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al. to respond filed.
- May 20 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 31, 2025)