Washington – As coronavirus cases increase across the country, on Wednesday the Supreme Court temporarily barred New York City from applying safe limits to the presence of places of worship in designated spaces designated as affected by the virus. York to reassess these restrictions, but it will not have an immediate effect, as the two teams they demanded because of the restrictions, the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Jewish synagogues in Brooklyn and Queens, are no longer subjected. Them.
Teams have filed a lawsuit to challenge attendance limits at places of worship in spaces designated as red and orange areas, where New York City had limited attendance to 10 and 25 people, respectively. But teams are now subject to less restrictive regulations, as they are now in designated spaces through yellow spaces.
The judges split 5-4 to prevent the state from enforcing the restrictions that oppose the teams for now, with new judge Amy Coney Barrett mostly. It’s the first vote of the publicly discernible conservatives as a judge. The court and The President of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, disagreed. The judges acted urgently as the restrictions continued to be prosecuted. In an un signed order, most of the court said restrictions “isolate places of worship for severe treatment. “Earlier this year, when Barrett’s liberal predecessor, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in court, the judges split 5-4 to put pandemic capacity restrictions affecting churches in California and Nevada in position.
The court action was a victory for the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Jewish synagogues who had filed a lawsuit to challenge state restrictions announced through Governor Andrew Cuomo on October 6. The Diocese of Brooklyn, which covers Brooklyn and Queens, argued that the places of worship were unfairly targeted through the governor’s decree. He pointed out that in the red zones, businesses deemed “essential”, from grocery retail stores to retail puppy stores, can stay open without capacity limits, “non-essential” businesses have had to close. And in the orange zones, the maximum of businesses can open without capacity restrictions. The diocese argued that it had operated safely in the past by limiting attendance to 25% of a building’s capacity and taking other steps. Parts of Brooklyn and Queens are now in yellow zones where attendance at places of worship is limited to 50% of a building’s capacity. Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish organization with synagogues affected by the restrictions, also filed a lawsuit. The organization argued that the governor’s restrictions were specifically directed at the Orthodox Jewish community.
New York, for its part, told the court that devout meetings were treated less restrictively than secular meetings that posed the same threat of infection, such as concerts and theatrical performances, that were completely prohibited. Restrictions on places of worship to continue. Lately there are several designated spaces in the state, but there are no red zones, depending on the state’s online page that tracks spaces designated as hot spots.