ATLANTA—In a major victory for the nation’s building trades, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a ruling on April 21 that affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction to halt the Biden-era PLA mandate, which impacts projects receiving $35 million or more in federal funding.

The Associated Builders and Contractors and its Florida First Coast chapter filed the appeal for an injunction. Constructive Dive reports that in the court’s ruling, Chief Judge William Pryor said that the appeal would likely not succeed because the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo confirming the Biden-era order would remain, even under the Trump administration.