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June 7, 2021 ■ Vol. 47, No. 23 ■ $10.00 See Page 9

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Judges Side With Lamont

Over Masks for Children

By ROBERT STORACE
onstitutional law practitioners
will be paying close attention to a
CSuperior Court ruling that sided
with Gov. Ned Lamont and will keep
in place mask mandates for children in
Connecticut, according to constitution-
al law professors and those who filed
suit against the governor.
While Quinnipiac University School
of Law professor and constitutional law
expert Bill Dunlap said, “state cases usu-
ally get less attention then federal ones,”
he said the five-page ruling that Supe-
rior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher Children wearing masks at school. Photo: Vasyl/Adobe Stock
wrote Monday could be the exception to the rule. In his ruling, Moukawsher said he wanted to
“I would imagine that constitutional lawyers wait until the Connecticut Supreme Court had
are looking closely at this ruling because of the acted on a similar case in Casey v. Lamont. In that
separation of power issue, and because we are in case, the state’s high court upheld the governor’s
a pandemic and questions like this will come up power to close bars during the pandemic.
again,” Dunlap said Thursday. ■ Continued on PAGE 6

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