The Norwegian Gem is set to push off from Miami Sunday for its first cruise in more than a year-and-a-half. And if you’re one of the more than 1,200 passengers who’ve booked a ticket, you’ll be showing your proof of COVID vaccination before you step aboard.

Thanks to a boatload of work over the past few weeks by a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan team led by Derek Shaffer, Olga Vieira and John O’Sullivan, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. can ask passengers to show their vax cards despite a “vaccine passport” ban signed into law earlier this year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis The Quinn Emanuel team this week won a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami who found the state law likely violates the First Amendment and the dormant Commerce Clause.

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