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Open for business: Napa retail art galleries claim victory as county backs down in the face of a legal challenge
After two long months of pandemic-related shutdown, throngs of Napa County, California, business owners are finally free to open back up. Quent Cordair Fine Art, a business mainstay since 1996, inexplicably was not.
Because the government can’t deny business owners the right to earn a living based on arbitrary whims, Quent and Linda Cordair sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom and the county urging equal treatment for their 3,000-square-foot art gallery.
Rather than face the Cordairs in federal court, the county did the right thing and backed down.
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City Journal: Can we sue our way out of quarantine?
State governors from coast to coast issued coronavirus-related lockdown orders about two months ago, closing businesses and restricting people’s movements.
As layoffs and business failures mount, Pacific Legal Foundation is hearing from people across the country frustrated by the lack of clear lockdown exit plans from their elected officials.
They ask: Why can’t we sue our way out of the lockdowns? Larry Salzman answers in his City Journal op-ed.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Preserve Prop. 209: Don’t let racial discrimination return to California
Quick! Close your eyes and think of how coronavirus can be used as a justification for a law you want enacted.
Be creative! What’s the biggest stretch you can come up with?
As Wen Fa tells us, the answer for California Assembly member Freddie Rodriguez, D-Pomona, is to repeal the state’s landmark 1996 Civil Rights Initiative, Proposition 209.
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PLF in The Wall Street Journal: It’s about time we got a Bill of Rights for the regulatory state
Our Bill of Rights limits government power and guarantees our liberty as Americans. Today, much of that government power has shifted from Congress to an unaccountable regulatory state, but there are no equivalent protections in the bureaucratic process.
Last week, the President signed an executive order containing a Regulatory Bill of Rights. Jonathan Wood and Elizabeth Slattery describe how this will help Americans ensnared in regulatory proceedings (subscription required).
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