Class Complaint Challenges New York's Cap For Weddings While Protests Proceed

(September 2, 2020, 12:21 PM EDT) -- SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Two New York event venues filed a class complaint on Aug. 28 in federal court accusing the governor and others of "an unprecedented abuse of power" by creating an executive order in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic that violates the venues' rights under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by limiting the number of people at gatherings such as weddings to 50 while still allowing other facilities to host more people and still permitting protests of thousands (Bill & Ted's Riviera, Inc., et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, et al., No. 20-1001, N.D. N.Y.)....