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The U.S. Supreme Court handed California churches a victory Friday, granting injunctive relief to a group that had sued over coronavirus lockdown rules that banned indoor services.<\/p>\n
The churches will be allowed to hold indoor services as they await a decision on their appeal in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing their case but had denied a motion to suspend the ban during it.<\/p>\n
The 6-3 decision came with the Court’s liberal justices in dissent.<\/p>\n
CALIFORNIA’S LIBERAL NINTH CIRCUIT TO TACKLE GUN RIGHTS, MULL REINSTATING HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINE BAN<\/strong><\/p>\n “The Ninth Circuit\u2019s failure to grant relief was erroneous,” the Supreme Court\u2019s order reads. “This outcome is clearly dictated by this Court\u2019s decision in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom.”<\/p>\n \n FILE – In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite, File)\n <\/p>\n The churches sued Santa Clara County earlier this month after the county continued to ban indoor services despite an earlier Supreme Court ruling that Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s complete ban violated the First Amendment, according to the Bay Area’s Mercury News.<\/p>\n The county argued that its ban was allowed because it did not single out religious gatherings.<\/p>\n But the Supreme Court\u2019s order will prevent the county from enforcing the ban until the 9th Circuit case concludes.<\/p>\n The court\u2019s brief statement said the dissenting liberal justices disagreed with the majority for the same reasons they laid out in the United Pentecostal case.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640\/320\/AP20337623493853-e1607372177153.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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