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La. high court returns virus rules dispute to lower court

by Melinda Deslatte
| December 22, 2020 12:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday sent a legal feud between Gov. John Bel Edwards and House Republicans over coronavirus restrictions back to district court, saying the judge ruled too quickly that the state law the GOP used to try to nullify the restrictions was unconstitutional.

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