Seventeen plaintiffs including local businesses and residents filed a lawsuit on April 16 in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court, seeking to overturn Philadelphia’s renewed indoor mask mandate.
The city’s health officials reinstated indoor masking on April 18, after previously ending the policy on March 2.
Attorney Thomas W. King III, who represents the plaintiffs, told The Epoch Times that he believes health officials don’t have the authority to impose such a mandate.
“They met in a room in the board of healthcare, and they came up with their own standards. So they’ve invented some standards. And they’ve gotten rid of the CDC. And when they did that, in our opinion, they didn’t follow the law,” King said. “Philadelphia is going in the wrong direction with the rest of the world.”
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