Federal judge overturns South Carolina school mask ban

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A national justice has suspended South Carolina from enforcing a regularisation that banned schoolhouse districts from requiring masks for students. Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the authorities saying the prohibition discriminated against medically susceptible students by keeping them retired of nationalist schools arsenic the COVID-19 pandemic continues. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled Tuesday that suspending the disguise prohibition passed by the Republican-dominated General Assembly wasn’t a adjacent call. She says the prohibition was similar the authorities preventing schools from gathering wheelchair ramps.  A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Henry McMaster says helium volition combat the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. 

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