Oregon Supreme Court puts hold on lower court decision that COVID-19 stay-at-home order was ‘null and void’

  Yesterday it was learned that a county Judge in Oregon ruled that Governor Kate Brown’s stay-at-home order was “null and void” because it had gone beyond 28 days. The authoritarian Governor appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court and today the Court issued a stay on the lower court decision. Here is more: 

In a late Monday ruling, the Oregon Supreme Court stepped in to put a hold on a dramatic decision by an eastern Oregon judge that declared not only Gov. Kate Brown’s restrictions on church gatherings “null and void” but all her “Stay Home Save Lives’’ coronavirus emergency orders.

State Supreme Court Presiding Justice Thomas A. Balmer in a three-paragraph ruling issued at 7:45 pm. granted the state’s emergency motion after reviewing briefs from both sides.

The hold will remain in effect until the high court considers the state’s full petition to dismiss the Baker County Circuit judge’s preliminary injunction.

Balmer gave the plaintiffs until Friday to file any responses and said the court would take the matter under advisement, with no set timetable for a decision.

  Well that did not take long. The stay is in place until the State Supreme Court issues a ruling on the lawsuit but no timetable is set to hear the case so I would bet this is not going to be heard any time soon.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium