New York Mask Mandate Back in Effect After Judge Grants Stay
The New York Times
An appeals court judge granted a motion to temporarily block a lower-court ruling that had struck down the state’s mask mandate.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect for now after an appeals court judge on Tuesday blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that had abruptly struck down the policy and created confusion across schools and businesses.
The decision on Tuesday came one day after a ruling by Justice Thomas Rademaker, of State Supreme Court in Nassau County, who had said the rule requiring masks violated the State Constitution.
His ruling had abruptly nullified part of the rule imposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last month, amid a surge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant, that required masks or proof of full vaccination at all indoor public spaces statewide.
