The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania (federal district court, W.D. Pa.) · Pennsylvania
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983; U.S. Const. amends. I and XIV
- Issued
- 2020-09-14 Sept. 14, 2020
- Effective
- Declaratory judgment Sept. 14, 2020; stayed pending appeal by the Third Circuit Oct. 1, 2020 (PA-120); vacated as moot Aug. 11, 2021 (PA-104) (read as 2020-09-14)
- End
- n/a (read as 2020-12-31)
- In force
- Sept. 14, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- Functions reached
- context: confirms the existence, terms and enforcement of the closure, stay-at-home and gathering orders
- Collection
- Pennsylvania PA
Operative words
(66-page opinion filed 09/14/20; the govinfo PDF carries a text layer for the ECF headers only; the holdings are described from the Third Circuit's Aug. 11, 2021 opinion (PA-104), which recites that the district court 'declared' the challenged directives -- 'stay-at-home orders, business closure orders' and congregate-gathering limits -- unconstitutional)
Enforcement
n/a (judicial decision); the Commonwealth's orders remained enforceable under the Third Circuit's stay
Notes
Use for the fact that a federal court adjudicated the orders as binding governmental restrictions on commerce and assembly; the decision never took effect against the orders and was vacated.
Retrieval noteCourt's own filed opinion saved from govinfo (8.2 MB, image PDF); body text not machine-readable, so graded secondary; holdings taken from PA-104's recital.