Publication Date: 2022-12-06
Practice Area: Government
Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Neuberger, Thomas S. Neuberger, The Neuberger Firm, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott D. Cousins, Scott D. Jones, Cousins Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Thomas C. Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Martin D. Haverly, Martin D. Haverly, Attorney At Law, Wilmington, DE, for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Zi-Xiang Shen, State of Delaware Department Of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Brad D. Sorrels, Andrew D. Cordo, Daniyal M. Iqbal, Nora M. Crawford, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2021-1036-JTL
Chancery court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over challenge filed by religious leaders to COVID-19 in-person gathering restrictions where plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate reasonable apprehension that state would reimpose such restrictions after it entered a settlement agreeing not to impose similar restrictions in the future.