A federal appeals court Friday granted New York's attempts to block weddings from having more than 50 people.
So the state took its case to the federal appeals court in Manhattan and won an emergency stay Friday of the lower court's ruling so the case can be heard.
The move blocked a couple who sued from being married Saturday in Erie County with 175 people expected to attend, the court papers said.the wedding will be moved to a later date. "We had won every stage of this thing, but the judge in the 2nd Circuit just cavalierly postponed it until Tuesday," Rupp said."So we're very unhappy about this decision."
New York has the most deaths in the nation due to COVID-19 with about 25,300 deaths, but it has in recent months had among the lowest infection rates in the U.S.
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