Resource Explains Litigation Challenging State Stay at Home Orders
A new KFF brief provides an overview of the legal basis for state stay at home orders in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as current legal challenges to these orders. Stay at home orders and other mandatory social distancing measures have received broad public support, but also have drawn some public protests. Different stakeholders have brought at least 20 legal challenges claiming these orders violate the Constitution or state law. Most courts to…