Constraining Cuomo
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Agudath Israel and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, holding that Emmy Award-winning Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 inspired numerical capacity limits on their religious services violate the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. The November 25 Supreme Court order (5-4) granted an emergency injunction constraining Cuomo from enforcing the limits pending review by the Second Circuit. The Supreme Court’s
per curiam opinion is posted online here along with the concurring and dissenting opinions.
In its
per curiam opinion the Supreme Court found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits because Cuomo’s order was not neutral on its face and imposed greater restrictions on religious activities than on other activities Cuomo deemed “essential.” It is a critically important Supreme Court decision that we noted at the time.
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