March 16, 2026 - A coalition of leading medical ... were likely made in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Judge Brian Murphy also stayed all votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP. The injunction further stays the heavily ...

BOSTON, March 16, 2026—A coalition ... (CDC), as the appointments were likely made in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Judge Brian Murphy also stayed all votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP. The injunction further stays the heavily revised vaccine schedule ...

3 weeks ago - On March 16, Judge Brian E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts stayed Kennedy’s ACIP appointments, barred the reconstituted panel from meeting, and froze the recommendations it had issued.

April 21, 2026 - CHICAGO, April 21 (Reuters) - Americans ... be covered ​by insurers. The decision by Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy froze the work of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel that advises the ...

March 18, 2026 - The most important and impactful recent update is the decision from a federal judge Monday that temporarily stayed multiple decisions made by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), ...

March 31, 2026 - As a result, the court stayed the appointments of the new ACIP members. As noted above, the newly constituted ACIP voted three times to change vaccine recommendations, and the court stayed all three votes.

April 10, 2026 - The judge wrote that “on this point there are glaring gaps,” with “even under the most generous reading, only six appear to have any meaningful expertise in vaccines.” · In response to the ruling, HHS canceled a scheduled ACIP meeting.

March 20, 2026 - The order temporarily blocks changes ... until the judge can make a final ruling on the merits of the case. Specifically, the judge placed a stay on three specific vaccine-related actions....

March 25, 2026 - After combing through the various changes to the CDC vaccination schedules and the reconstitution of ACIP, on March 16, 2026, the court issued a memorandum and order determining that the plaintiffs demonstrated that the appointments to ACIP ...

March 16, 2026 - A coalition of leading medical ... (CDC), as the appointments were likely made in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Judge Brian Murphy also stayed all votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP. The injunction further stays the heavily revised vaccine schedule ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ... and perceived conflicts of interest within federal health agencies. Murphy stayed the appointments of 13 ACIP members, effectively preventing the committee from having its upcoming March18-19 ...

April 21, 2026 - The US District Court for the District ... confliction with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Judge Brian Murphy also halted all votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP, ruling that most members of a panel appointed by Robert F Kennedy ...

March 16, 2026 - While Boston-based Judge Brian Murphy stopped short of formally blocking the panel from convening, his opinion effectively halted the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ scheduled meeting this week at the CDC from moving forward.

Third, the judge stayed all the votes that the reconstituted ACIP had taken during 2025. Those included votes in June 2025 on flu vaccines and the vaccine ingredient thimerosal (), in September 2025 on COVID-19 vaccines, and in December 2025 ...

June 16, 2026 - "A functioning ACIP is essential to ensuring that vaccine recommendations remain grounded in evidence and available to the families and providers who rely on them," Kennedy wrote. The March 16 ruling by US District Court Judge Brian E.

March 20, 2026 - On Monday, a federal judge temporarily ... wake. The panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, canceled its planned meeting this week....

1 month ago - Judge Murphy held that wholesale removal of 17 ACIP experts and installation of largely non-expert replacements failed FACA “fair balance” and committee charter expertise requirements.

March 20, 2026 - Judge Brian Murphy ruled that RFK Jr’s ACIP appointments likely violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act. As such, all votes previously taken by the vaccine panel under the new members have been stayed.

April 16, 2026 - The ACIP’s charter expired on April 1st—two weeks after Judge Murphy’s stay. The timing of the events, while coincidental, gave Kennedy both a reason that the old ACIP committee could no longer act, and an opening to rebuild it from scratch.

March 30, 2026 - A federal judge stays all votes by the restructured CDC vaccine panel, ruling that recent appointments likely violate the Federal Advisory Committee Act.