( October 19, 2023, 8:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should not grant a petition for a writ of certiorari by the Air Force secretary and others seeking vacatur of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that left in place class certification and a classwide injunction in a vaccine mandate case where the mandate has since been rescinded, members of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons argue in an Oct. 18 opposition brief, asserting that the appeal is not moot....