January 19, 2021
A Pittsburgh-area restaurant defying Pennsylvania's pandemic-related mask requirements can't keep a pause on an Allegheny County Health Department lawsuit seeking its temporary closure, after a federal bankruptcy court judge said Tuesday that the restaurant was unlikely to succeed in appealing his earlier go-ahead for the county's case.
January 15, 2021
A Pittsburgh-area restaurant that has been operating in defiance of Pennsylvania's COVID-19-related mask mandate asked a federal bankruptcy judge Thursday to extend a stay on the Allegheny County Health Department's effort to shut it down, citing its appeal to the U.S. District Court.
December 14, 2020
A Pittsburgh restaurant that opposes face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic can't send its civil rights lawsuit to bankruptcy court or pause its debtor's obligation to creditors in its Chapter 11 suit, Allegheny County has told two Pennsylvania courts, saying the cases are unrelated.
December 11, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge should not let a Pittsburgh-area restaurant that flouted the statewide COVID-19 mask mandate continue with its suit over being shut down, Allegheny County and its health department urged Friday.
September 24, 2020
The Pittsburgh-area restaurant under regulatory fire to shut down for defying a statewide COVID-19 mask mandate shot back with a lawsuit of its own, claiming the rule has no scientific backing despite its attorney acknowledging Thursday that the eatery's complaint "probably overstated" information doubting facial coverings' efficacy.