A federal judge on Sept. 17 temporarily blocked the implementation of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order, which allowed parents to opt children out of wearing masks in schools. The judge blocked Lee, a Republican, from enforcing his order in Shelby County and directed Shelby officials to enforce the county’s health orders without exception to the governor’s order. The same court issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month against the governor. That restraining order was set to expire at 4 p.m. on Friday. “Plaintiffs offered sufficient evidence at this stage to demonstrate that the executive order interferes with Plaintiffs’ ability to safely access their schools,” U.S. District Court Judge Sheryl Lipman wrote in a 29-page opinion (pdf). The three plaintiffs in the case are parents of children with disabilities who argued that their children are at increased risk of adverse outcomes from COVID-19 and that the governor’s order would …