In that February ruling Chief Justice Lori Gildea wrote that “the legal question of whether the Emergency Management Act authorizes a peacetime emergency for a public health emergency - such as the COVID-19 pandemic - is functionally justiciable and an important issue of statewide significance that should be decided immediately.”Īttorneys representing Gov. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota that sent the case back to the Court of Appeals to decide whether the state’s Minnesota Emergency Management Act gives the governor authority to declare a peacetime emergency for public health reasons. The appellate court ruling came after the Minnesota Supreme Court in February of this year granted an appeal by the petitioners in Snell vs.
“And because it was undisputed that the COVID-19 pandemic endangered life and that it caused ‘major economic impacts throughout Minnesota and put Minnesotans’ housing, livelihood, and jobs at risk,’ we concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic endangered property.” “ … (B)ecause the Governor designated the COVID-19 pandemic as the basis for the emergency, the question was whether ‘that pandemic’ endangered life and property,” Judge Larkin wrote in the decision released Monday. That order ran from March 2020 to July 2021. The opinion, written by Judge Michelle Larkin, also noted that Walz was within the authority delegated to him by the legislature to declare a peacetime emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its decision on Monday, the three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling from March 2021 that dismissed the case on the merits. Tim Walz on Monday in a case where a group of citizens had challenged the constitutionality of the governor’s indoor mask mandate that lasted 10 months during 20.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Gov.
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