Posted on 04/28/2020 4:18:42 PM PDT by Libloather
**SNIP**
The lawsuit challenges Whitmer's executive powers and seeks an immediate injunction.
"For the first time in our state's history - indeed, in our nation's history - the state government is mass quarantining healthy people instead of the sick," the lawsuit reads. "As a free people, we have the unalienable right to pursue happiness, which includes the freedom to make our own choices about our safety and welfare without unconstitutional interference. In the face of the coronavirus, it means the freedom to choose whether to stay at home, or to keep calm and carry on with the things that make life worth living."
The plaintiffs lawyers allege the state has no significant evidence the virus is as deadly as reported, citing recent antibody tests that reveal the coronavirus was present in the U.S. far earlier than expected and therefore more people have been infected with no symptoms.
"The number of deaths caused by COVID-19, while unquestionably tragic, is not 'unprecedented,' as routinely claimed," the lawsuit says. "What is unprecedented is Governor Whitmer's response to it."
(Excerpt) Read more at crainsdetroit.com ...
Pennsylvania ...
https://www.law360.com/articles/1266418/attachments/0
Found for the government. FN18 on P45 is a doozy.
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