Pennsylvania Court Voids School Mask Mandate

Finally people are rising against the madness.

Corrected: This is not an ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Alec Lemeas and DMan correct me, but by an appeals court. The Karen Governor is appealing to a higher court.

An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wednesday by a state court that said she lacked the authority. The Wolf administration said lawyers were directed to file an immediate appeal.

Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The judges said acting Health Secretary Alison Beam's mandate did not comply with the state's laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.

The state's disease control law does not give health secretaries "the blanket authority to create new rules and regulations out of whole cloth, provided they are related in some way to the control of disease or can otherwise be characterized as disease control measures," wrote Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon, a Republican, for the majority.

Compare and contrast:

When a generation of kids begin exhibiting an induced autism-like syndrome of stunted social development caused by not seeing human faces through several of their key formative years, we can all say, "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."

posted by Ace at 02:54 PM

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