Updates to our Terms of Use

We are updating our Terms of Use. Please carefully review the updated Terms before proceeding to our website.

Friday, April 26, 2024 | Back issues
Courthouse News Service Courthouse News Service

Masks and transportation

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois granted the state's motion to dismiss it from a suit brought by a Catholic rideshare driver who claimed the Centers for Disease Control’s requirement that people wear masks on public transportation violated his First Amendment rights by preventing him from “following the teachings of the biblical Good Samaritan.”

Read the opinion here.

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Government, Health, Religion

Subscribe to Closing Arguments

Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world.

Loading...