Judge Rules Local Missouri COVID-19 Orders Unconstitutional

Judge Rules Local Missouri COVID-19 Orders Unconstitutional
Shoppers browse in a supermarket in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 2020. Lawrence Bryant/Reuters
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A Missouri judge on Tuesday ruled that local COVID-19 orders violated the Missouri Constitution, ordering local health officials to rescind them.

Judge Daniel Green of Cole County wrote that the Department of Health and Senior Services unconstitutionally gave too much power to individual local health officials and directors. As a result, he ruled, those orders must be lifted, meaning that local health orders must be rescinded.

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