A Florida judge ruled against Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday and is allowing schools to issue mask mandates while the appeals court sorts out the legality of the governor’s ban.
Leon County Judge John Cooper ruled to vacate an automatic stay given to the state after it appealed his previous decision stating that DeSantis’s executive order banning school mandates is unconstitutional, according to Fox 13 Tampa Bay.
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Cooper said he believes this is the first time he has vacated a stay.
“We are not in normal times,” he said. “We are in a pandemic. We have children who cannot be protected by a vaccination.”
The governor’s order allowed parents to decide if they want their kids to wear masks to school rather than have local school districts make the decision, prompting a lawsuit brought by a group of parents in favor of school mask mandates.
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