Deputy State Attorney General Fires Back on Request for Camp Restraining Order

.In response to the restraining order requested by the Association of Jewish Camp Owners against Governor Cuomo’s decision to ban camp this summer, New York State Deputy Attorney General Chris Liberati-Conant request a one week extension before the hearing.

Claiming that camps were “on notice for months that overnight summer camps might not open” and that the camps who are suing had “10 days to tailor their complaint to the specific facts of the case,” the state lawyer requested that the state be given a week to formulate their own evidence.

Avi Schick, the lawyer representing the camp owners, responded to the state saying that they gave advance notice that they would be filing for a restraining order. Schick also said that any delay would impede the ability of campers to exercise their religious rights.

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