Brooklyn judge reinstates NY mask mandate
Appellate judge grants stay while appeal process continues
New York State’s indoor mask mandate is back in effect, courtesy of an Appellate Division judge in Brooklyn.
On Tuesday, Justice Robert J. Miller of the Appellate Division, Second Department on Monroe Place, temporarily blocked a ruling earlier this week by Justice Thomas Rademaker of Nassau County Supreme Court, who said that requiring masks violated the state constitution, according to The New York Times.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James had asked for a stay of Justice Rademaker’s ruling. “A judge has granted our motion to keep New York’s mask mandate in place while our appeal process continues,” she tweeted after Judge Miller’s action. “Protecting the health of New Yorkers during the #COVID19 pandemic is our top priority.”