Court Upholds New York's COVID-19 Cluster Action Initiative

Religion Clause ^ | 11/1/20 | Howard Friedman

[marshmallow]

In Soos v. Cuomo, (ND NY, Oct. 30, 2020), a New York federal district court refused to enjoin New York's Cluster Action Initiative begun in early October that targets specific areas for enhanced COVID-19 restrictions. Houses of Worship were a specific concern of Gov. Cuomo in issuing the executive order creating the Initiative. The court said in part:

To find in plaintiffs' favor under these circumstances would be to second-guess the State's medical experts and scientific and public health findings with respect to what constitutes an "essential" business, which would run afoul of Jacobson and its progeny.... Indeed, the State has arguably shown that, according to their medical and public health experts, religious gatherings pose a unique risk to the spread of COVID-19, and, thus, "although the [Initiative] establishes rules specific to religious gatherings, it does so because they are gatherings, not because they are religious."...

[Texas Eagle]

Cluster action, eh? I bet I know what is going through 99% of FReepers’ minds.

[CondorFlight]

So it’s alright to use a pretext to close houses of worship?
That’s more dangerous to our culture than Covid...

[Texas Eagle]

Exactly.

[Revel]

Communist rule. No more constitution. Remember when that was just a kook conspiracy.

[Skywise]

Asinine, stupid and nonsensical reasoning -

News from the future, 2021 -

“To find in plaintiffs’ favor under these circumstances would be to second-guess the State’s medical experts and scientific and public health findings about global warming and that shutting down all energy and car usage, which the court does find constitutes an inconvenience, is well within the city’s rights to enforce to protect the populace.