NY Bars and Restaurants Win Court Victory against Cuomo's COVID Curfew

Tyler O'Neil : Mar 1, 2021
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"Months ago we were being redlined where the city of Rochester could not serve indoor dining, but you can go over to the suburbs and you can sit down so it was quite difficult to operate under those conditions," Swartz recalled. "The law office went to battle for us and got that removed." -Donald Swartz, owner of Veneto Wood Fired Pizza and Pasta

[PJMedia.com] Late last year, blue state governors began enforcing an utterly nonsensical policy ostensibly to fight COVID-19. Govs. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) insisted curfews for bars and restaurants, preventing them from staying open for lucrative late-shifts without explaining how this business-throttling move would fight the pandemic. (Screengrab image: via Office of the Governor /AP /PJMedia)

On Saturday, a New York State Supreme Court justice granted a preliminary injunction allowing 90 bars and restaurants to remain open until their regular closing time of 4 a.m. Cuomo had ordered a 10 p.m. curfew in November. Last month, he extended the curfew to 11 p.m. The bars and restaurants sued, demanding the scientific data upon which Cuomo based the curfew.

Steve Cohen, the HoganWilling PLLC attorney representing the bars and restaurants, argued that science did not support the curfew. Cohen said his firm has 13 lawsuits already and is welcoming more industries to come on board... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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