U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Monclova Christian Academy v. Toledo-Lucas Cnty. Health Dep't
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- Opinion
- Author
- Raymond M. Kethledge
- Filed
- June 21, 2022
- Case
- Monclova Christian Academy v. Toledo-Lucas Cnty. Health Dep't
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 22a0250n.06 No. 20-4300 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Jun 21, 2022 DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk ) MONCLOVA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, et al., ) Plaintiffs-Appellants, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES v. ) DISTRICT COURT FOR ) THE NORTHERN TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ) DISTRICT OF OHIO Defendant-Appellee. ) ) OPINION ) Before: CLAY, ROGERS, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges. KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. We have already decided all there is to decide in this appeal. The plaintiffs are nine Christian schools that claim the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department violated their Free Exercise rights when the Department ordered closed all county schools—public, private, charter, and parochial—for grades 7 to 12, from December 4, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. until January 11, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. (including a 2-week break for the holidays). We enjoined that order on December 31, 2020, and the order expired by its terms on January 11, 2021. See Monclova Christian Acad. v. Toledo-Lucas Cnty. Health Dep’t, 984 F.3d 477 (6th Cir. 2020). The Department now asks us to dismiss this appeal as moot and also to vacate our earlier order. Th…
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