No. 25-5775

Edward Walton v. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-10-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights covid-vaccine due-process eighth-circuit executive-order genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-11-14
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner's Due Process claim regarding COVID-19 vaccine classification and mandate

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. II

Docket Entries

2025-11-17
The 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.
2025-10-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/14/2025.
2025-10-22
Waiver of right of respondent Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al. to respond filed.
2025-05-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 31, 2025)

Attorneys

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al.
Benjamin R. MarbleLittler Mendelson P.C., Respondent
Benjamin R. MarbleLittler Mendelson P.C., Respondent
Edward Walton
Edward Walton — Petitioner
Edward Walton — Petitioner