The Center for American Liberty (@Liberty Ctr) in conjunction with the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. (@DhillonLaw), on behalf of churches in San Bernardino County and Riverside County represented in
Gish v. Newsom, the Supreme Court of The United States ruled tonight that the denial of an injunction by both the District Court and the 9th Circuit was wrong.
The Center for American Liberty filed
Gish et al. v. Newsom et al., its first lawsuit challenging California’s COVID restrictions on faith organizations in April, 2020, challenging Governor Newsom’s COVID emergency orders that defined religious institutions hosting live services as non-essential. Using a now-disfavored legal standard as its basis, a federal district court in southern California refused to enjoin the government’s sweeping clampdown on religious liberty.
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Some California churches reopened their doors for services Sunday after the Supreme Court ruled last week that the state’s orders prohibiting indoor services during the pandemic appeared to violate the Constitution’s protection of the free exercise of religion.
“This is not just our 1st Amendment rights, it’s really our biblical mandate not to forsake assembling with the saints,” Ché Ahn, senior pastor of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, told congregants during Sunday services.
The state’s ban on indoor services was challenged in separate lawsuits by Harvest Rock Church and the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, and Friday’s order applied directly to them. But its legal logic would block enforcement of a similar ban at other churches.
BEIJING China appears to have stamped out its latest coronavirus outbreaks centred on the northeast, reporting no new cases of local infection in its .