Posted on 11/24/2020 9:11:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A San Diego Superior Court judge Monday dashed the hopes of restaurant and gym owners who were hoping to reopen indoors, turning down their request for a temporary restraining order that would have lifted the county’s current order limiting in-person service to outdoors only.
Acknowledging the need to weigh both the financial harm being suffered by the local businesses as well as the health and safety of the populace amid a widening pandemic, Judge Kenneth J. Medel concluded that “the impact on public health of dismantling a portion of the state’s COVID-19 response designed to reduce community spread outweighs the economic harm to Plaintiffs at least pending further examination of these issues in any upcoming hearing on preliminary injunction.”
argeted in the lawsuit were various state officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, as well as the county of San Diego. The county, however, had stated that it was not taking a position on the request for a temporary restraining order.
The restaurants and gyms argued in court and in their lawsuit that they are not the main source of rising rates of infection. In fact, they asserted, data from the county shows that they represent a small fraction of cases where sources have been tracked. They have also claimed that state and county orders shutting down indoor operations interfere with their rights and violate the California Constitution.
The judge, however, pointed out in his ruling that the current statistics on sources of infections may not remain where they are today.
“Further, while there may be evidence that shows a current minimal COVID-19 spread in the restaurants and gyms of San Diego County, that does not necessarily mean that restrictions in these sectors going forward are unwarranted,” Medel wrote.
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you cannot have a representative democracy with an unelected lifetime appointed judiciary can step in and rewrite laws. create new laws, and steal freedoms. There needs to be significant judicial reform in America.
And if EVERYBODY tells said judge to go to hell, then what?
Because that’s what’s fixing to happen.
California has the best judges that money can buy.
This is why I think that all citizens that live near any Officers of the Court or elected officials and Public Officials and PRESSTITUTES , should do everything possible to PHOTOGRAPH them Violating these Health Orders on Thanksgiving and CALL 911, Videotape the whole thing and Publish it.
I Guarantee you the vast majority of Public Servants will pay NO Attention to these orders, they are above those laws.
Yep. Even with the quasi-Karens there will be a breaking point.
It’s pretty obvious by now that Governors have much too much power.
I didn't see THAT coming.
How do I shrink a graphic that ordinarily is NOT so large ?
Does this judge ‘have standing’?
“We need to re-open businesses..”
Government: “RELEASE THE COVID NUMBERS!!”
I can see why the judge (left side of pic) closed gyms...but restaurants? Didn't see that coming...
Judge says no to letting San Diego County restaurants, gyms reopen indoors amid rise in coronavirus cases and guaranteeing his invitation to the next Newsome Soiree.
There fixed.
lower level judges are inherently lazy. they do not want to be seen. They want to be another cog in the machine punching their time card for retirement.
their job is to make decisions for other people. Decisions to tell others what to do. if they get noticed they lose their job. lose their pension. the bureaucracy is job security.
So, time to take a property tax holiday.
We were told sorry, you still owe the property tax, no break, too bad if we won’t let you do your job.
So that makes your property assessment worth ZERO, because you can’t use it for productive work.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the idiot Pubbies got something like that?
These judges are destroying the rule of law. People will start ignoring these idiots in robes. If this keeps up I expect to find judges hanging from lampposts right next to politicians.
They forget this is a nation of warriors, always has been, always will be. Ask the British what happens when you push the American people too far.
How many government “workers” have lost any pay because of all this covid stuff? Likely NONE. Do you think that they give a rat’s ass about you...peon?
We will find a way around them. Maybe, we go into a grocery store, enter the back room. Go down a dark hall and come to a locked door. Knock three times, give the password and the door opens to a crowed room filled with music, food, and a bar. They will never know. Plus nobody will have to pay tax on it.
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