Because of the ongoing supply chain crisis and the looming holiday season, the National Retail Federation, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the American Trucking Associations have sued the Biden administration over COVID-19 vaccine mandates, which would require businesses with 100 or more employees to have staff fully vaccinated by Jan 4.Requiring the vaccines, and any accompanying loss of workers over the mandates, would cause irreparable harm in an "already fragile supply chains and labor markets," the groups countered in a lawsuit.The case was filed in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which last week paused the mandates after a suit was brought by the Republican attorneys general of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,