Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, with his organization the Foundation for Moral Law, was one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs.
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by seven people who claimed that restrictions imposed by Gov. Kay Ivey and State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris during the COVID-19 pandemic violated their constitutional rights.
In June 2021, U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case. The judge found, in part, that the request for an injunction was moot because Ivey and Harris had lifted most of the restrictions in April 2021. “The court is not unsympathetic to Plaintiffs’ plight in general and especially in relation to the sacred, fundamental constitutional rights held dear by most Americans,” Watkins wrote in his June 2021 order dismissing the case. “But there is not one citizen living within the borders of this land who has not suffered real, sometimes harsh, effects from governmental reactions to the COVID-19 crisis.
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