Minnesota Gov. Walz was legally allowed to mandate masks, appellate court rules
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz legally possessed the authority to mandate face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walz declared a peacetime emergency in March 2020 and mandated masking in most indoor public spaces in July 2020. The conservative Upper Midwest Law Center sued, challenging the mask requirement as unconstitutional. Walz lifted the mandate in May 2021, at which point the Court of Appeals declared the case moot.
But the Minnesota Supreme Court in February sent the case back to the appeals court to settle the key legal question behind the case: whether the Minnesota Emergency Management Act of 1996 authorizes a governor to declare a peacetime emergency during a public health emergency such as the pandemic. The high court called it an "important issue of statewide significance."
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