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ELIM ROMANIAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH v. PRITZKER

No. 20-1811.

962 F.3d 341 (2020)

ELIM ROMANIAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH and Logos Baptist Ministries, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jay Robert PRITZKER, Governor of Illinois, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 16, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Karam Gannam , Daniel Joseph Schmid , Mathew D. Staver , Horatio Gabriel Mihet , Attorneys, Liberty Counsel Inc., Orlando, FL, Sorin Adrian Leahu , Attorney, Mauck & Baker, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Priyanka Gupta , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Richard Brian Katskee , Alexander Joseph Luchenitser , Attorneys, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Benna Ruth Solomon , Attorney, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae City of Chicago.

Nimra Azmi , Attorney, Muslim Advocates, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Muslim Advocates.

Hal R. Morris , Attorney, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae Illinois Health and Hospital Association, Illinois State Medical Society, American Nurses Association-Illinois, Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing.

Before Easterbrook, Kanne, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.

Two churches contend, in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that an executive order limiting the size of public assemblies (including religious services) to ten persons violates their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Governor of Illinois...

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