Posted on 04/18/2022 2:20:37 AM PDT by Libloather
PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) - More than 20 local businesses and residents have filed suit in state court in Pennsylvania seeking to overturn Philadelphia’s renewed indoor mask mandate scheduled to be enforced beginning Monday in an effort to halt a surge in COVID-19 infections.
The lawsuit, filed in Commonwealth Court on Saturday, said Philadelphia lacks the authority to impose such a mandate.
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Attorney Thomas W. King III, who was among those involved in last year’s successful challenge to the statewide mask mandate in schools, said the city’s emergency order went against recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and “imposed a renegade standard unfound anywhere else in the world.”
“Philadelphia actually did away with the CDC guidelines as the standard and they’ve invented their own guidelines,” King III told Eyewitness News. “They’re making this stuff up. I want to see the state commonwealth court strike down this mandate as a violation of Pennsylvania law.”
The suit accuses city health officials of having “usurped the power and authority” of state lawmakers, the state department of health and the state advisory health board.
“We have people here who have saved all their lives to run restaurants, open gyms, chiropractic services and other businesses in Philadelphia,” King III said. “What they’re telling me is that when these mask mandates are in place and people have to wear masks indoors, that they lose a substantial amount of their business.”
Many businesses spent the holiday weekend getting ready for the change. A Spring Garden gym posted a sign requiring that all customers need to be vaccinated, and at the bottom they wrote: “We know…. Please don’t shoot the messenger.”
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
This city is like a Third World corrupt city. Arbitrarily tell you how to dress, red light cameras everywhere, they tell you can’t even have plastic bags-Democrats are the exact opposite of somebody looking out for the little man
Those aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
Fox 32 in Chicago reported that people in Philly are happy to start wearing masks again. The good citizens are being told to report any business that does not comply.
Because they can.
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