Posted on 04/16/2023 3:14:02 PM PDT by John Semmens
Evette Pennypacker, a Superior Court of California judge in Santa Clara County, rejected arguments that $1.2 million in fines levied by the county violated the religious rights of the members of the Calvary Chapel in San Jose "because the infringements of the free exercise of religion and the peaceable assembly of parishioners were not enacted by Congress, but imposed by county officials for the protection of public health during the pandemic."
The judge also rejected scientific evidence for the ineffectiveness of the mask mandate the county sought to impose, saying that "county officials did not know at that time that masks could not impede the spread of covid or that re-breathing the air trapped by the mandated masks could actually be a detriment to one's health. In hindsight, the mandate may appear to have been a mistake, but that doesn't relieve citizens from the obligation to heed the orders their government officials give to them or pay fines for disobedience."
Mariah Gondeiro, an attorney for Calvary Chapel, said "we will appeal this obviously incorrect and incoherent ruling by Judge Pennypacker. The whims of ill-informed county officials cannot outweigh the rights protected by the US Constitution."
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Evette Pennypacker is exactly like R.Freisler and A.Vyshinsky
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