The Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is pictured in this file photo from Aug. 4, 2020. photo by: Journal-World File Photo In an ongoing legal dispute over a Douglas County health order that limits bars’ operating hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, an attorney now says a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down attendance limits at religious services should apply to an adult entertainment club in Lawrence. Attorneys for the county, however, say that argument fails to note that free religious exercise protections of the First Amendment were central to the court’s decision in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., case against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. On Nov. 26, the justices, in a 5-4 split, barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus, the Associated Press reported . Robert “Tuck” Duncan is representing Paradise Saloon in a Douglas County District Court case challenging the health order that, in part, limits the hours that establishments with liquor licenses can operate. In a recent supplemental brief, Duncan cited the Supreme Court opinion in the New York case, which stated that “the regulations cannot be […]
