ELIM ROMANIAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH v. PRITZKER

No. 21-2523.

22 F.4th 701 (2022)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 11, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Joseph Schmid , Attorney, Liberty Counsel Inc., Orlando, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

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

Before Easterbrook, Kanne, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


Two churches sued the Governor of Illinois after he issued an executive order limiting to ten the number of persons who could attend any particular religious service during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The district court denied the churches' motion for a preliminary injunction. By the time the appeal was argued in June 2020, the Governor had rescinded...

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