Mealey's (August 31, 2022, 12:12 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — In its appeal of a Florida federal judge’s ruling that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transportation mask mandate exceeded its statutory authority and violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the federal government submitted a reply brief to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 29, arguing that masking is a conventional disease control measure that falls within the scope of the CDC’s statutory authority as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court and that the CDC satisfied statutory requirements for making the mask mandate immediately effective....