{"id":3150,"date":"2023-11-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:38:25","slug":"yukon-court-dismisses-challenge-of-law-used-to-enact-covid-19-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/yukon-court-dismisses-challenge-of-law-used-to-enact-covid-19-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Yukon court dismisses challenge of law used to enact COVID-19 rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Yukon judge has dismissed a legal challenge of the territory\u2019s Civil Emergency Measures Act (CEMA), the legislation used to create and enforce public health rules and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Seven plaintiffs sued the territorial government in 2020, arguing that CEMA was unconstitutional and gave politicians too much power without sufficient oversight. They wanted the legislation struck down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Yukon judge has dismissed a legal challenge of the territory\u2019s Civil Emergency Measures Act (CEMA), the legislation used to create and enforce public health rules and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Seven plaintiffs sued the territorial government in 2020, arguing that CEMA was unconstitutional and gave politicians too much power without sufficient oversight. They wanted the legislation struck down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/yukon-court-dismisses-challenge-of-law-used-to-enact-covid-19-rules\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yukon court dismisses challenge of law used to enact COVID-19 rules<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,567,82,18,175,14,566,358],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cema","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-public-health-measures","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-territorial-civil-emergency-measures-act","tag-yukon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}