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Tandon v. Newsom, 141 S.Ct. 1294 (2021) (per curiam), the U.S. Supreme Court enjoined pending appeal California s imposition of a blanket limitation during the COVID-19 pandemic on private gatherings of all kinds, religious and secular, in homes to three households. However, California permitted gatherings at other types of locations such as hair salons, retail stores, private suites at sporting events and concerts and indoor restaurants. According to the per curiam, [c]omparability is concerned with the risks various activities pose, not the reasons why people gather ; therefore, these activities are comparable. Government regulations trigger strict scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause whenever they treat comparable secular activity more favorably than religious exercise. Narrow tailoring requires the government to show that measures less restrictive of the First Amendment activity could not address its interest in reducing the spread of COVID. Moreover, the state cannot
LOS ANGELES Churches across the nation will benefit from the first statewide permanent injunction in the country against COVID-19 restrictions on places of worship after Harvest Rock's victory against California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
51.4% of eligible Californians are fully vaccinated.
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Permanent pandemic changes?
Restaurant patrons sit in a parklet along Valencia Street in San Francisco on July 25, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Hard-hit restaurants and bars may not exactly come out of the pandemic smelling like roses but many will likely be able to continue serving alcohol to-go and expanding outdoor dining, CalMatters’ Miranda Green reports. State lawmakers are currently considering two bills that would permanently allow restaurants to sell to-go alcoholic beverages and another that would permanently allow cities to restrict traffic, creating “slow streets” that could encourage more outdoor dining. Several large cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco, have already expanded or are considering expanding their outdoor dining programs.