HARRISBURG – A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday ruled an order requiring face masks inside K-12 schools and childcare centers to curb the spread of the coronavirus must expire Dec. 4, according to published reports.
This, however, is unlikely to be the final legal development in the school masking case, according to an Associated Press report published by WJAC-TV.
The ruling by state Commonwealth Court Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon comes a week after her court struck down the state-wide mask mandate in a 4-1 decision.
It also lifts the automatic suspension of that decision granted when Gov. Tom Wolf’s Administration appealed to the state Supreme Court.
Cannon’s ruling, in theory, gives time for the state Supreme Court to take up the case, or for Wolf’s Administration to write and enact a mask mandate through an emergency regulation.