Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government
Jul. 9, 2020
California’s decision to shut down indoor dining rooms Is based on misleading evidence
Governor Newsom and other California officials have used the virus as an excuse to create a Sacramento-based medical welfare state that regularly tramples individual rights. Indeed, in just a few months, the state’s lockdown order has been transformed from a temporary necessity to the status quo, something that people and businesses need to get permission to be freed from.
Scott J. Street
Partner
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP
Phone: (213) 205-2800
Email: sstreet@jwhowardattorneys.com
Scott has taught at Loyola Law School, practiced in the U.S. Supreme Court and written for the Daily Journal and other publications.
A few months ago, I wrote an article in this newspaper that challenged the legality of Gov. Gavin Newsom's statewide lockdown order under the California Emergency Services Act, a law that none of the constitutional experts interviewed in mainstream newspapers like the Los Angeles Times seem to have read.
Back then, the public seemed willing to cut the governor some slack. Perhaps they believed his statement, made on March 19, that "...
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