AG Curtis Hill draws attention to federal court ruling, says COVID-19 restrictions must be constitutional

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Attorney General Curtis Hill said today that leaders in all states should take notice of a federal court decision that declared certain COVID-19 orders issued by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf unconstitutional. According to court documents, the United States District Court For the Western District of Pennsylvania Judge William Stickman IV ruled that the governor’s limitation on the size of gatherings violates the First Amendment “right of assembly," the stay-at-home and business closure orders “violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment," and the business closure components of the governor’s order violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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