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An Illinois appeals court has rejected Governor JB Pritzker’s request to overturn a lower court decision that declared Pritzker’s school mask mandate “null and void.”
Judge Raylene Grischow’s ruling earlier this month led hundreds of school districts to drop a mask requirement for students and teachers, moving instead to a “mask optional” approach. Pritzker appealed the decision, while simultaneously seeking to have his executive order adopted as a rule by a state legislative committee. However, that committee this week voted against renewing the school mask rule, citing the legal uncertainty.
And because of that decision, the appeals court found there is no current state mask mandate, rendering the appeal “moot.” But the three-judge panel did say that nothing in the ruling prevents school districts from adopting mask requirements independent of the governor’s executive order.
You can read the court’s decision here.
