I wouldn’t make a fluff item such as graduation my stake in the sand. More important services like medical appointments and dental care are still being restricted.
The plaintiffs include a stand-alone car wash and a hair & nail salon, whose owners believe their businesses have been arbitrarily prevented from operating during the pandemic by being deemed non-essential. In the case of Car Wash and Beyond, on Route 9, the suit charges that the business has been unfairly and arbitrarily closed since mid-March under a Murphy shut-down order, while car washes attached to gas stations have been permitted to go on operating because the gas-pumping side of their business has been deemed essential for transportation.