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4 minute read A sign advising the use of face masks is pictured at an elementary school, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Emily Elconin
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Parties split on whether case is moot after mandate rescinded
(Reuters) - A Lansing, Michigan, Catholic school on Wednesday urged a federal appeals court to find unconstitutional the state s now-rescinded mandate that school students wear masks to curb the spread of COVID-19, which it says imposes on its free exercise of religion.
Erin Mersino of Great Lakes Justice Center told Judges Bernice Donald, Eugene Siler and Karen Moore of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that the Supeme Court s ruling last month in a dispute over a Catholic foster care agency that turned away same-sex couples supported broad legal exceptions for religious institutions.