Wed Oct 12, 2022 – 5:06 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a win for Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis by upholding the Sunshine State’s prohibition against COVID-19 “vaccine passports.”
In a 2-1 decision on October 6, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’ argument that the ban, which forbids companies from requiring Floridians to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, was unconstitutional, WUSF reported.
Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in the 55-page decision joined by Judge Andrew Brasher that Florida’s vaccine passport ban, “[l]ike any anti-discrimination statute,” defends “individuals by preventing businesses from excluding them from the market.”
In a victory for Gov. DeSantis, a sharply divided federal appeals court rejected arguments by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings that Florida’s ban on so-called “vaccine passports” is unconstitutional. https://t.co/UIHEOA46VY
— WUSF (@wusf) October 7, 2022
“The statute prevents real harm, not some abstract economic impact,” Pryor added. “Without this statute, unvaccinated Floridians risk being turned away from the businesses that make their lives possible — grocery stores, restaurants, fitness gyms, clothing stores, barber shops and hair salons, and even pharmacies.”
The Thursday decision rolled
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