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DESROSIERS v. THE GOVERNOR

SJC-12983.

486 Mass. 369 (2020)

DAWN DESROSIERS & others v. THE GOVERNOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 10, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. DeGrandis, of the District of Columbia, for the plaintiffs.

Douglas S. Martland, Assistant Attorney General, for the Governor.

John A. Sten, for Representative Shawn C. Dooley, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Elissa Flynn-Poppey, Emily Kanstroom Musgrave, & Andrew Nathanson, for Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

On March 10, 2020, Governor Charles D. Baker, Jr., declared a state of emergency in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in response to the pandemic arising from COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. See Governor's Declaration of Emergency, Executive Order No. 591. He did so under the Civil Defense Act (CDA), St...

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