U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto of the Eastern District of New York on Friday rejected a request from a group of Orthodox Jewish synagogues seeking to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo from limiting religious gatherings to 10 people in some parts of Brooklyn and Queens under a new set of color-coded public health restrictions aimed at combating COVID-19 clusters.

Matsumoto found that the state was restricting gatherings in the interest of public health without "religious animus or targeting."