Posted on 12/19/2020 12:58:41 AM PST by conservative98
A group of Pennsylvania bars and restaurants is taking legal action against Gov. Tom Wolf and Health Secretary Dr. over new coronavirus rules that will prohibit indoor dining during the holiday season.
Co-counsels for the group filed a pair of court documents Friday, Troy Freedman, a lawyer for the businesses, told Fox News.
One was a petition for review, a required first step when filing suit against state officials under Pennsylvania law, Freedman said. The other is seeking an injunction that would enjoin the governor from enforcing his order, which he issued last week. It went into effect on Dec. 12. Wolf tested positive for the virus on Dec. 8.
"We’ve followed all the rules, we’ve paid attention to everything, we’ve done everything you’ve mandated," the owner of BlackJax American Pub & Grill, one of the venues involved in the lawsuit said in a statement. "Now, I know a bunch of people who have had COVID – but not one person has gotten it in, or from, my restaurant."
Attorneys plan to argue that the prohibition on indoor dining violates the equal protection clauses in the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions.
"It treats bars and restaurants differently than other types of businesses, retail businesses, Walmarts, Targets, small mom-and-pop stores, which are allowed to continue to remain open and serve their patrons," Freedman said. "But you don’t allow the same liberty to small restaurants and bars."
Not even if they follow stringent sanitation practices and other health guidelines.
Similar lawsuits against indoor dining shutdowns recently prevailed in other states, including California, where Freedman said they were "somewhat analogous" to the Pennsylvania case with governors accused of overreach.
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CONTROL!!!
“Don’t Call Me Dick”
Is she really a she? Looks like a man, baby.
It’s the creature from Trans-sylvania.
Tom Wolf is invalid just because he got the slightest trace of COVID in him. Time to make people see the leftist logic for its absurdity.
It is a mentally ill man playing dress up.
So if your businesses are closed why arent you outside of his house screaming? He thinks hes gotten away with it all because no one is getting in his face, he feels safe, he should be made to feel unsafe
It IS a man. Here in PA, we have a mentally ill health secretary.
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
FReepmail me to be added to the list.
When he decided to make “the change” the hospital refused the surgery on the basis that he was (and still is) mentally unstable.
So he went into a bathroom in the ER with a knife and performed it DIY.
And despite that and all the hormones he still has that pesky Y chromosome.
Do you have an independent source that Levine did this?
I want to beat some liberals over the head with this example of “Follow the science”. However I need a source to do it right.
If you’re going to post a picture of Corporal Klinger, please at least post a picture of some eye bleach.
This is a picture of mental illness personified!
The closing of private business by the State is a ‘taking’ and should be treated as any other eminent domain action.
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