{"id":854,"date":"2020-09-18T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-09-18T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:02:42","slug":"federal-district-court-strikes-down-pennsylvania-governors-covid-19-emergency-orders-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/09\/18\/federal-district-court-strikes-down-pennsylvania-governors-covid-19-emergency-orders-as-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal District Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Governor&#8217;s COVID-19 Emergency Orders as Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 14, 2020, a federal court in Pennsylvania ruled that Governor Tom Wolf\u2019s emergency orders relating to the COVID-19 pandemic are unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs\u2014a group of counties, elected public officials and businesses\u2014challenged several of the governor\u2019s COVID-19 orders requiring numeric limitations on gatherings of individuals, closures of nonlife-sustaining businesses and directing Pennsylvanians to stay at home. Judge William S. Stickman IV of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled in the plaintiffs\u2019 favor, declaring that portions of the challenged orders violate the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/federal_court_strikes_down_pennsylvania_governors_covid19_emergency_orders_0920.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 14, 2020, a federal court in Pennsylvania ruled that Governor Tom Wolf\u2019s emergency orders relating to the COVID-19 pandemic are unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs\u2014a group of counties, elected public officials and businesses\u2014challenged several of the governor\u2019s COVID-19 orders requiring numeric limitations on gatherings of individuals, closures of nonlife-sustaining businesses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/09\/18\/federal-district-court-strikes-down-pennsylvania-governors-covid-19-emergency-orders-as-unconstitutional\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal District Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Governor&#8217;s COVID-19 Emergency Orders as Unconstitutional&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995,162,184,135],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emergency-orders","tag-executive-order","tag-nonessential-businesses","tag-pennsylvania"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}