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A State Supreme Court judge ruled the over 90 restaurants involved in the lawsuit would be able to re-open under yellow-zone guidelines, but it doesn’t reopen all restaurants in Erie County’s orange zone.
For that to happen the state would need to budge, or the county may need to go into court, something Erie County Legislature Minority Leader Joe Lorigo is looking into.
“For it to extend further, you would either need, Erie County government to take that action,” Lorigo said. “I ll be contacting my colleagues today to find out whether or not there s any interest in doing so. Maybe even reaching out to the county executive to see if we can get the county attorney to start a lawsuit challenging the orange zone designation on behalf of restaurants in the county.”