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Court: Top NC health official can be sued for COVID shutdown

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press/Report for America - Yesterday 5:13 PM

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/court-top-nc-health-official-can-be-sued-for-covid-shutdown/ar-AA10eOeF?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e7c3ef09c08f4ef59ce3513747cc1535

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Gov. Roy Cooper’s secretary of health and human services should not be immune from a lawsuit over the administration’s restrictions on large gatherings in the early months of the coronavirus

The Department of Health and Human Services temporarily shut down Ace Speedway, a small stock car racetrack in Alamance County, in June 2020 after it repeatedly defied Cooper’s executive order limiting outdoor crowds to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

The racetrack filed counterclaims that August, alleging the department unlawfully singled out the business for its acts of protest and violated its employees’ constitutional right to earn a living.

The appeals court unanimously upheld a January 2021 trial court ruling denying a DHHS motion to dismiss Ace Speedway’s claims that the agency selectively enforced the governor’s orders and impeded the racetrack’s ability to make money.

“This case makes us consider the use of overwhelming power by the State against the individual liberties of its citizens and how that use of power may be challenged,” the judges wrote.

DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley, whose predecessor filed the 2020 order to close the speedway, argued before the appeals court that executive officials should be immune from civil lawsuits. But the court ruled Ace’s claims were “sufficient to survive the secretary’s motion to dismiss” the lawsuit.

Three days after Cooper issued an executive order placing a 25-person cap on all outdoor gatherings, Ace Speedway hosted approximately 2,550 spectators for its first race of the season on May 23, 2020.

A sign posted on site at a subsequent race that June labeled the 2,000-person gathering a “peaceful protest of injustice and inequality everywhere," the lawsuit states.

When the speedway continued to draw crowds of 1,000 or more, the governor’s office ordered Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson to intervene. After Johnson refused to issue a misdemeanor citation, the Cooper administration declared Ace Speedway an “imminent hazard” for the spread of COVID-19 and called for its closure until the emergency order expired.

A court has yet to rule on the merits of Ace Speedway’s claims. But the panel of three Republican judges drew attention Tuesday to a clause in the state Constitution guaranteeing North Carolinians a right to the “fruits of their labor.” Recent court precedents say the clause is synonymous with the right to earn a living.

The ruling noted that the order to close the racetrack “restricted or otherwise interfered with the lawful operation of a business serving the public."

Pelosi notes China 'didn't say anything when the men came' to Taiwan

House speaker questions whether status was 'reason or excuse' for China's aggression toward Taiwan

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By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

2022/08/03 13:34

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4615058

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday (Aug. 3) argued that China did not make "much of a fuss" when male U.S. leaders visited Taiwan.

During a press conference on Wednesday, a CNA reporter asked Tsai if she had foreseen that China would respond to her visit to Taiwan with military exercises and sanctions against Taiwan. Pelosi said that she hopes that her visit leads to more visits by members of congress in the future and pointed out that several U.S. lawmakers had made trips to Taiwan earlier this year.

She observed that five senators including the Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee visited Taiwan in April and said: "not too much of a fuss was made." However, China did announce smaller-scale military exercises in the waters and airspace in Taiwan during the visit and stated that they were being held in reaction to “wrong signals” given by the U.S. to “Taiwan Independence” forces.

Pelosi said that individual senators plan to go to Taiwan and expressed her hope that it is clear that although China has "stood in the way of Taiwan participating and going to certain meetings, that they understand that they will not stand in the way of people coming to Taiwan." She said that such visits demonstrate friendship and support, but are also a source of learning about "how we can work together better in collaboration."

Pelosi then suggested that China "made a big fuss because I'm speaker, I guess." She then added that she was not sure if her status as House speaker was "a reason or an excuse."

She then observed that "they didn't say anything when the men came" as she waved her arms and looked at the audience. Her remark then prompted laughter among the attendees and Tsai, who raised her eyebrows.