Government
Mar. 31, 2020
Challenging Newsom's open-ended shelter-in-place order
Governor Newsom’s order is especially jarring. Unlike emergency declarations issued by his predecessors, Newsom’s order contains virtually no findings and no evidence.
Scott J. Street
Partner
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP
Phone: (213) 205-2800
Email: sstreet@jwhowardattorneys.com
Scott has taught at Loyola Law School, practiced in the U.S. Supreme Court and written for the Daily Journal and other publications.
Shakespeare's Dick the Butcher suggested that we "kill all the lawyers." As lawyer David Epstein once noted in the Wall Street Journal, Shakespeare meant this as a term of endearment, "to portray lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law who stand in the way of a fanatical mob."
That principle means as much now as it did then, as a fanatical mob of well-intentioned Californians hoard food, avoid their friends and destroy businesses...
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