Category: Testing Lawsuits

I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). Also in the MDFL, I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines).

I’m in a group of 14 who filed six lawsuits against the Transportation Security Administration for illegally enforcing a mask mandate (Wall v. TSA). Our cases started in six circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and are now in the District of Columbia Circuit. A member of our coalition is suing CDC and five airlines in Faris v. CDC.

Here’s media coverage of the cases during January 2022:

A frequent flyer grounded because he medically can’t tolerate wearing a face mask lodged a new complaint Sunday attacking the legality of the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate ordered by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, advancing the case into final proceedings after a federal judge denied Dec. 18 the government’s motion to dismiss.

Plaintiff Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C., asserts in the 89-page amended complaint that CDC’s mask mandate is illegal and unconstitutional. He charges CDC and its parent agency, the Department of Health & Human Services, with eight counts of violating the Constitution and federal law by imposing a requirement that all passengers and employees throughout the nation’s entire public-transportation system obstruct their oxygen intake. Wall also charges the agencies with four constitutional and statutory violations for the International Traveler Testing Requirement, which mandates that all airline passengers flying to the United States – but not travelers entering the country by land or sea – submit a negative COVID-19 test within one day of departure.

I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). Also, in the MDFL, I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines).

I’m in a group of 14 who filed six lawsuits against the Transportation Security Administration for illegally enforcing a mask mandate (Wall v. TSA). Our cases started in six circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and are now in the District of Columbia Circuit.

Here’s media coverage of the cases during October 2021:

I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). Also, in the MDFL, I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines).

I’m in a group of 14 who filed six lawsuits against the Transportation Security Administration for illegally enforcing a mask mandate (Wall v. TSA). Our cases started in six circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and are now in the District of Columbia Circuit. Here’s media coverage of the cases during November 2021:

I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). Also, in the MDFL, I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines).

I’m in a group of 14 who filed six lawsuits against the Transportation Security Administration for illegally enforcing a mask mandate (Wall v. TSA). Our cases started in six circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and are now in the District of Columbia Circuit. Here’s media coverage of the cases during December 2021:

The U.S. Department of Justice filed today its final brief in the country’s first lawsuit seeking to strike down the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate. The case is now in the hands of Magistrate Judge Daniel Irick at the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida.

“Lucas Wall and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention greatly differ about the scientific facts regarding the efficacy of mask wearing and what Mr. Wall calls ‘the harms of forced muzzling.’ But for those who seek to use our nation’s public-transportation systems during a global pandemic, Congress has entrusted those judgments to the experts at the CDC,” the federal government argues in an effort to save the FTMM from suffering the same fate (being enjoined by courts) as the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Eviction Moratorium and Conditional Sailing Order for cruiseships.

“I’m confident the court will vacate the illegal and unconstitutional Federal Transportation Mask Mandate, which CDC issued without any authority from Congress and in violation of the constitutional right to freedom of travel, to due process of law, and states’ rights under the 10th Amendment,” said plaintiff Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C. “The Supreme Court struck down the Eviction Moratorium with strong language that CDC had no power to ban evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The same law applies to the mask mandate.”

I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines). Here’s media coverage of my two cases during September 2021:

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision tonight ending the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s illegal Eviction Moratorium means the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate is almost certainly the next unlawful CDC pandemic order to be struck down by the courts as it’s based on the same law.

Justices ruled that CDC’s action to continue imposing an Eviction Moratorium was illegal because, among other reasons, Congress never authorized it. The same is true for the FTMM. Congress has never passed a law requiring anyone using public transportation to cover their face.

A frequent traveler banned from flying because he medically can’t wear a face covering filed a 47-page legal brief tonight urging the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, to vacate the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate, which the Biden Administration announced Tuesday will be extended from Sept. 13 to Jan. 18.

Plaintiff Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C., asserts the FTMM and International Traveler Testing Requirement are motivated by politics, not public health, and are unsupported by law. President Biden said last year he had no constitutional authority to impose a mask mandate.