"This is the fifth time the Court has summarily rejected the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of California’s COVID re-strictions on religious exercise. It is unsurprising that such litigants are entitled to relief."
BTFO yet again
In an unsigned opinion, the majority wrote that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit’s failure to put California’s COVID restrictions on hold was “erroneous.” The Supreme Court’s decisions in earlier challenges to COVID-related restrictions have, the justices wrote, “made several points clear.” Among other things, the majority stressed, government regulations are subject to heightened scrutiny whenever they treat any secular activity more favorably than religious activity; it doesn’t matter that the state also treats some secular businesses or activities poorly. Moreover, the majority added, a case may remain a live controversy even if the government changes the policy – particularly when, as here, “officials with a track record of ‘moving the goalposts’ retain authority to reinstate those heightened restrictions at any time.”
BTFO California and 9th circus
There's a few of us here, but we're still hopelessly outnumbered even in Contra Costa