A lawsuit filed by the New Orleans-based Pelican Institute that challenges the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. Army members will move forward even after the defense secretary last week rescinded the mandate.
The New Orleans-based Pelican Institute and other groups have appealed a federal district court ruling earlier this year that dismissed a challenge to Louisiana’s sales tax system as unconstitutional, overly burdensome for businesses and convoluted.
The federal government has yet to indicate whether it will appeal a judgment handed down by a Louisiana judge that stops the government’s vaccine mandate for staff and volunteers in the Head Start program for young children.
Louisiana lawmakers have begun to take a holistic look at the state’s tax system, with a vow to make recommendations that may include the elimination of the state’s income tax levied on both individuals and corporations.