Ninth Circuit Grants Injunction in COVID-19 Occupancy Case, Says Restriction Not Narrowly Tailored
December 16, 2020 On Tuesday, in the Ninth Circuit, an appellate panel, in an opinion authored by Judge Milan D. Smith, ruled that recent Supreme Court precedent mandated that public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic involving occupancy limits in houses of worship must be tailored to the size of the building, not the number of people generally.
The underlying litigation, as explained by the opinion, involved a church in Nevada suing the state to overturn a now-defunct executive order (EO) from the governor that imposed “a fifty-person cap on indoor in-person services at houses of worship.” This marked the second attempt by the church to overturn this executive order, having been initially denied a preliminary injunction as the district court “found that the state treated similar secular activities and entities–including lectures, museums, movie theaters, tra
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