Constitutional Law
Apr. 24, 2020
Lodi church sues governor after police disrupt service
“Civil rights are not suspended by a virus. Fundamental and unalienable rights are, by their very nature, ‘essential,’” said the complaint filed in the Eastern District of California.
A Lodi church sued California officials in federal court arguing that mandatory suspension of its services violates the free exercise of religion and free assembly clauses of the First Amendment in the latest challenge to the governor's order halting religious gatherings.
The complaint filed Wednesday by Dean Broyles of the National Center For Law and Policy comes after police disrupted services in the church March 5 and notified pa...
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