Show-Me COVID Legal Ruling: Do We Have To Put The Masks Back On?!?

Court decisions after the fact and now that everyone is trying to get on with their lives . . .

In his 18-page decision, Judge Marco Roldan concluded that the attorney general’s office did not follow Missouri law when it demanded last year that Lee’s Summit R-7 School District rescind the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Schmitt sued Lee’s Summit, along with 46 other school districts, then amplified his attacks on social media, “encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the board of education by Missouri law,” Roldan wrote.

That led to “even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused.”

“The attorney general lacked any legal authority to insert himself into the school district’s efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic,” Roldan wrote.

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Judge rules Missouri AG had no authority to order end of school mask mandates * Missouri Independent

Former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt lacked any legal authority to order school districts to end COVID-19 mitigation measures, a Jackson County judge ruled Friday. In his 18-page decision, Judge Marco Roldan concluded that the attorney general's office did not follow Missouri law when it demanded last year that Lee's Summit R-7 School District rescind the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.