Some New York Schools Lift Mask Mandates After Judge Overrules Order Despite Appeal Plans
Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Thomas Rademaker decided Monday Governor Kathy Hochul and Health Commissioner Mary Bassett overstepped their bounds in December by implementing a mandate requiring all residents to wear face masks in public spaces when New York was no longer in a state of emergency, CNN reported. Rademaker called the mandate “a law that was promulgated and enacted unlawfully by an executive branch state agency, and therefore void and unenforceable,” according to the AP....