Thursday afternoon, a San Diego judge held a last-minute hearing to clarify a bombshell court order allowing strip clubs, strip clubs that serve food, and thus restaurants to reopen.
The order doesn't just buck Governor Gavin Newsom's Dec. 5 shutdown order (which forced strip clubs to close and relegated restaurants to takeout only), this also undermines the tier system that preceded the shutdown.
Legal analyst Dan Eaton said the order doesn't just allow for on-site dining again, it allows limited capacity indoor dining - something that was a no-no during the Purple Tier.
"The fact is that San Diego is the second-largest jurisdiction in the state of California," Eaton said. "And yes this is a big deal because it undermines the governor’s regional pod shutdown pod order as it applies to a broad sector of the population. And there is also the potential that other counties will look at what the judge in this case did and agree with it. In that case, you can see a cascading effect."
Meaning attorneys in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara might file requests asking judges for a judicial review of what happened in San Diego.
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