Judge Blocks Orange County From Using Hotel to House Transients With COVID-19

Homeless encampment resident Tammy Schuler walks her dogs beside a row of tents and tarps that line the Santa Ana River bicycle path in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2018. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—An Orange County Superior Court judge indicated on April 16 he would grant a temporary restraining order blocking the county from using a state-and-federal program to house transients infected with COVID-19 at a Laguna Hills hotel.

However, Judge Thomas Delaney continued the hearing until the morning of April 20, in order to receive more arguments from the attorneys for the county and the city.