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- Jurisdiction
- New York (United States District Court for the Northern District of New York) · New York
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. s. 1983; Fed. R. Civ. P. 65
- Issued
- 2020-08-07 Aug. 7, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-07 (injunction as to the plaintiffs' two weddings at the Arrowhead Golf Club venue); stayed by the Second Circuit pending appeal (Aug. 2020; the stay order is not saved here) (read as 2020-08-07)
- End
- The underlying 50-person cap (EO 202.45, NY-031) continued for all other weddings until the catered-events rule of Mar. 15, 2021 (NY-108 s. E) (read as 2021-03-15)
- In force
- Aug. 7, 2020 to Mar. 15, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capEvents and venuesCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- Governor Cuomo
- Attorney General James
- Erie County Executive and Department of Health
- Empire State Development Corp.
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Weddings, Events and Production Services SEC-25
Operative words
Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining Defendants from enforcing a 50-person limit on non-essential gatherings, including weddings... is granted... [Plaintiffs argued that] a wedding venue, when operating as a restaurant under Defendants' 50-percent capacity restriction, is permitted to hold more than 50 people at a time (and thus failing to allow more than 50 people when the same venue is used for a wedding is arbitrary)
Enforcement
Court order; the record shows the State enforced the 50-person wedding cap against every other venue
Notes
Judicial record that New York's 50-person cap applied to weddings by its terms and that the State defended and enforced it in August 2020; the decision recites EO 202.45's 'gatherings of fifty (50) or fewer individuals' and the wedding venues' restaurant capacity of 'approximately 200 people'. Twenty-five pages.
Retrieval noteDo not cite it by docket number without reading it.