The plaintiffs claim their businesses were devastated by the governor's original state stay-at-home order issued in March. The latest order, they assert, will be even more destructive to their livelihoods and violates their right to peaceful assembly and free expression. It also puts business owners at risk of physical harm, as disputes over mask mandates in other parts of the country have led to violence in some cases.
The order is "unconstitutionally vague, riddled with many exceptions, many of which are subjectively determined," the suit says.
These arguments dovetail closely with — and even cite word for word at times — the opinion offered by Landry last week, who asserted that the legal foundation for the governor's July 11 order was "flimsy" and that it was "vague as to penalties and enforcement."
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