Orlando Federal court supports mask mandates
Scott Powers
April 30, 2022
... On Friday U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron ruled that the CDC has the authority, and followed it appropriately, to mandate that masks be worn by passengers of domestic flights, trains, buses and other public transit, and to mandate that people coming to the United States on international flights must pass COVID-19 tests first ...
The key words in the law for Byron were provisions that give the U.S. Surgeon General the authority to take several explicitly outlined steps, including sanitation and inspection, to “prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.”
Byron concluded that COVID-19 tests are a valid form of inspection, and that masks are a valid sanitation measure. He also noted that the law gives the Surgeon General authority to skip some rulemaking steps — something that Wall objected to in his complaint — when there is good cause for urgent public health actions.
“Frankly, if battling this elusive enemy does not rise to the level of urgency that qualifies for deviation from normal Rulemaking procedures under the good cause exception, the Court is not sure what does,” Byron wrote.
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